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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Yas'm, you is!Ah ain' figgerin' on havin' happen whut happen at dat las' barbecue w'en Ah wuz too sick frumdem chittlins Ah et ter fetch you no tray befo' you went.
-- It was going to happen now, just as she had dreamed it.
-- But not this!Never this!That thiscould happen to us all, this wrecking of old ways, this bloody slaughter and hate!Melanie, nothing is worth it States'Rights, nor slaves, nor cotton.
-- Every day she had read the casualty lists, read them with her heart in her throat, knowing that the world wouldend if anything should happen to him.
-- "I'm asking you for this reason, Scarlett I cannot tell what will happen to me or what will happen to any of us.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I drew Joe away, and he immediately became placable; merely stating to me, in an obliging manner and as a polite expostulatory notice to any one whom it might happen to concern, that he were not a going to be bull-baited and badgered in his own place.
-- What lay heaviest on my mind was, the consideration that six days intervened between me and the day of departure; for I could not divest myself of a misgiving that something might happen to London in the meanwhile, and that, when I got there, it would be either greatly deteriorated or clean gone.
-- "My son, sir," said the old man, after securing the drawbridge, "rather had it in his mind that you might happen to drop in, and he left word that he would soon be home from his afternoon's walk.
-- You don't know what may happen to him.
-- Don't let anything happen to the portable property."
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Time passed on again, and the youngest son too wished to set out into the wide world to seek for the golden bird; but his father would not listen to it for a long while, for he was very fond of his son, and was afraid that some ill luck might happen to him also, and prevent his coming back.
-- No harm shall happen to you.'
-- But alas!how woe-fully he was undone!what crosses and sorrows happen to us all in this world!The cook got up early, before daybreak, to feed the cows; and going straight to the hay-loft, carried away a large bundle of hay, with the little man in the mid-dle of it, fast asleep.
-- But when he got into the cellar, and they were all sitting together crying, and he heard the reason, and that Elsie's child was the cause, and the Elsie might perhaps bring one into the world some day, and that he might be killed by the pick-axe, if he should happen to be sitting beneath it, drawing beer just at the very time when it fell down, he cried: 'Oh, what a clever Elsie!'
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He held his sword drawn in his hand to defend himself, if I should happen to break loose; it was almost three inches long; the hilt and scabbard were gold enriched with diamonds.
-- But this I conceived was to be the least of my misfortunes; for, as human creatures are observed to be more savage and cruel in proportion to their bulk, what could I expect but to be a morsel in the mouth of the first among these enormous barbarians that should happen to seize me?
-- She apprehended some mischief would happen to me from rude vulgar folks, who might squeeze me to death, or break one of my limbs by taking me in their hands.
-- To avoid which cen-sure I fear I have run too much into the other extreme; and that if this treatise should happen to be translated into the language of Brobdingnag (which is the general name of that kingdom,) and transmitted thither, the king and his people would have reason to complain that I had done them an in-jury, by a false and diminutive representation.
-- They are very bad reasoners, and vehemently given to opposition, unless when they happen to be of the right opinion, which is seldom their case.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If you should happen to have looked in to-night, for the purpose of telling him that you were going to do her any little service,' said Mr. Childers, stroking his face again, and repeating his look, 'it would be very fortunate and well-timed; very fortunate and well-timed.'
-- If I should ask any other question that may happen to have that result, give me credit, if you please, for being in ignorance how to speak to you as I ought.'
-- These accidents did sometimes happen in the best regulated families of Coketown, but the bankrupts had no connexion whatever with the improvident classes.
-- 'I'm bletht if I know what to call it,' repeated Sleary, shaking his head, 'but I have had dogth find me, Thquire, in a way that made me think whether that dog hadn't gone to another dog, and thed, "You don't happen to know a perthon of the name of Thleary, do you?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "I have every reason to think so," said the Professor in a smiling tone, "and I beg to tell you that it is the most fortunate thing that could happen to us."
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