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。
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But these things happen so often!A young man, such as you describe Mr. Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them, so easily forgets her, that these sort of inconsistencies are very frequent.'
-- It does not often happen that the interference of friends will persuade a young man of independent fortune to think no more of a girl whom he was violently in love with only a few days before.'
-- I do not at all compre-hend her reason for wishing to be intimate with me; but if the same circumstances were to happen again, I am sure I should be deceived again.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was my lot first of all to fall into pretty good company in London, which does not always happen to such loose and misguided young fellows as I then was; the devil generally not omitting to lay some snare for them very early; but it was not so with me.
-- This touched my heart a little, and brought tears out of my eyes, and I began to bless myself that such a prodigy of nature should happen upon my account; and this was the more strange to me, because I saw near it still, all along by the side of the rock, some other straggling stalks, which proved to be stalks of rice, and which I knew, because I had seen it grow in Africa when I was ashore there.
-- If so, nothing can happen in the great circuit of His works, either without His knowledge or appointment.
-- This thought ran long in my head, and I was exceeding fond of it for some time, the pleasantness of the place tempt-ing me; but when I came to a nearer view of it, I considered that I was now by the seaside, where it was at least possible that something might happen to my advantage, and, by the same ill fate that brought me hither might bring some oth-er unhappy wretches to the same place; and though it was scarce probable that any such thing should ever happen, yet to enclose myself among the hills and woods in the centre of the island was to anticipate my bondage, and to render such an affair not only improbable, but impossible; and that therefore I ought not by any means to remove.
-- Then terrible thoughts racked my imagination about their having found out my boat, and that there were peo-ple here; and that, if so, I should certainly have them come again in greater numbers and devour me; that if it should happen that they should not find me, yet they would find my enclosure, destroy all my corn, and carry away all my flock of tame goats, and I should perish at last for mere want.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He hoped they would all excuse the smallness of the party, and could assure them it should never happen so again.
-- But if there should by any chance happen to be a woman who is single at seven and twenty, I should not think Colonel Brandon's being thirty-five any objection to his marrying HER."
-- He drove through the park very fast, and they were soon out of sight; and nothing more of them was seen till their return, which did not happen till after the return of all the rest.
-- I am sorry you do not happen to know Mrs.
-- "Perhaps," continued Elinor, "if I should happen to cut out, I may be of some use to Miss Lucy Steele, in rolling her papers for her; and there is so much still to be done to the basket, that it must be impossible I think for her labour singly, to finish it this evening.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It would be just like this to happen as things were going now.
-- Besides, many things might happen between now and Monday.
-- What would happen now?
-- Carrie ate alone, and wished that it might not happen again.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Niggers is always talking about witches in the dark by the kitchen fire; but whenever one was talking and letting on to know all about such things, Jim would happen in and say, 'Hm!
-- I said likely we wouldn't, because I had heard say there warn't but about a dozen houses there, and if they didn't happen to have them lit up, how was we going to know we was passing a town?
-- There was a considerable good deal of talk all the afternoon, and me and Tom was on the lookout all the time; but it warn't no use, they didn't happen to say nothing about any run-away nigger, and we was afraid to try to work up to it.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If I stay here the same thing will happen to me which happens to all other boys and girls.
-- Yours, just now, happen to have long noses."
-- "How did you happen here?"
-- "How did you happen here?"
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