happen是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为v. (偶然) 发生； 碰巧， 恰好，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'You are about to show me shadows of the things that have not happened, but will happen in the time before us,' Scrooge pursued.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, Mr. Stryver replied to my Lord, no; but he would ask the witness to tell him whether what happened once, might happen twice; whether he would have been so confident if he had seen this illustration of his rashness sooner, wheth-er he would be so confident, having seen it; and more.
-- 134 A tale of two cities 'As we happen to be alone for the moment, and are both people of business,' he said, when they had got back to the drawing-room and had sat down there in friendly relations, 'let me ask you does the Doctor, in talking with Lucie, never refer to the shoemaking time, yet?'
-- 'Stranger things than that will happen when it does come,' answered madame.
-- If that should happen soon, he kept another course in reserve; which was, to have a certain opinion that he thought the best, on the Doctor's case.
-- He always reso-lutely answered: 'Nothing can happen to him without my knowledge, and I know that I can save him, Lucie.'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would happen im-mediately if I were to begin here, as I intended to do, with: 'Rome has its Corso, Naples its Toledo' 'Ah!that Ander-sen; there he is again!'
-- To it the space between the heavenly bodies is not greater than the distance between the homes of our friends in town is for us, even if they live a short way from each other; such an electric shock in the heart, however, costs us the use of the body here below; un-less, like the watchman of East Street, we happen to have on the Shoes of Fortune.
-- Meanwhile he was haunted by the idea he should like to possess such a pair of spectacles himself; then, perhaps, by using them circumspectly, one would be able to look into people's hearts, which, he thought, would be far more in-teresting than merely to see what was to happen next year; for that we should all know in proper time, but the other never.
-- The lake was not frozen sufficiently to bear her; neither was it open, nor low enough that she could wade through it; and across it she must go if she would find her child!Then she lay down to drink up the lake, and that was an impossibility for a human being, but the afflicted mother thought that a miracle might happen nevertheless.
-- I just happen to have a very unusual shadow!Do you not see that person who always goes with me?
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There happened to him at that instant what does happen to people when they are unexpectedly caught in something very disgraceful.
-- Not, I don't see why there should not be a new force, if it..." "Why, because with electricity," Levin interrupted again, "every time you rub tar against wool, a recognized phenomenon is manifested, but in this case it does not happen every time, and so it follows it is not a natural phenomenon."
-- But this calm for thought never came; every time the thought rose of what she had done and what would happen to her, and what she ought to do, a horror came over her and she drove those thoughts away.
-- The birth of a son (he was certain it would be a son) which was promised him, but which he still could not believe in--so marvelous it seemed--presented itself to his mind, on one hand, as a happiness so immense, and therefore so incredible; on the other, as an event so mysterious, that this assumption of a definite knowledge of what would be, and consequent preparation for it, as for something ordinary that did happen to people, jarred on him as confusing and humiliating.
-- That had happened to him in this matter which is said to happen to drunkards--the first glass sticks in the throat, the second flies down like a hawk, but after the third they're like tiny little birds.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Phileas Fogg was not known to have either wife or children, which may happen to the most honest people; either relatives or near friends, which is certainly more unusual.
-- "I hope that this will not happen again," said Phileas Fogg coldly, as he got into the train.
-- Already he began to worry about possible delays, and accidents which might happen on the way.
-- In case anything should happen to me "A sudden pallor overspread the detective's face.
-- He listened at his master's door, and looked through the keyhole, as if he had a perfect right so to do, and as if he feared that something terrible might happen at any moment.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you should happen to work so late, I should be very pleast if you would come to have a bite."
-- There was indeed nothing that was happening or likely to happen in Wheatsylvania which Mr. Tozer did not know and explain.
-- Dear old Chum!That was when I was in Zenith to address the national convention of Congregational Sunday-schools, I happen to be a Congregationalist myself, on 'The Morality of A1 Health.'
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