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。
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And what is to happen to them, poor darlings?
-- We happen to know that you came away with a woman."
-- Something terrible will happen to us."
-- An account of them would be an account of the things he had seen happen to other people.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As Spilett ended his account, Neb jumped up, exclaiming in a voice which showed how hope struggled within him, "No!he is not dead!he can't be dead!It might happen to any one else, but never to him!He could get out of anything!"
-- returned the sailor; "but if by chance you happen to come across a tobacco- plant, my boy, pray don't scorn that!"
-- "And they don't happen to do for smoking?"
-- "I begin to think that very curious things happen in Lincoln Island!"
-- Now, what will happen if a hungry animal swallows one of these baits?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet I lingered about, and could not tear myself away, thinking of all possible harm that might happen to the child of fires and robberies and even murder and feeling as if some evil must ensue if I turned my back upon the place.
-- 'It's a happy circumstance, a truly happy circumstance,' said the Notary, 'to happen too upon his eight-and-twentieth birthday, and I hope I know how to appreciate it.
-- Be quick and open the door, or if there's another lawyer near and he should happen to look out of window, he'll snap him up before your eyes, he will.'
-- Did the gentleman happen to say, Sir but never mind that at present, sir; finish that little memorandum first.'
-- 'Did he say, for instance,' added Brass, in a kind of comfortable, cozy tone 'I don't assert that he did say so, mind; I only ask you, to refresh your memory did he say, for instance, that he was a stranger in London that it was not his humour or within his ability to give any references that he felt we had a right to require them and that, in case anything should happen to him, at any time, he particularly desired that whatever property he had upon the premises should be considered mine, as some slight recompense for the trouble and annoyance I should sustain and were you, in short,' added Brass, still more comfortably and cozily than before, 'were you induced to accept him on my behalf, as a tenant, upon those conditions?'
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I feel somehow as if I were invisible 'Here something began squeaking on the table behind Alice, and made her turn her head just in time to see one of the White Pawns roll over and begin kicking: she watched it with great curiosity to see what would happen next.
-- 'But that must happen very often,' Alice remarked thoughtfully.
-- 'You know,' he added very gravely, 'it's one of the most serious things that can possibly happen to one in a battle to get one's head cut off.'
-- 'I'm very brave generally,' he went on in a low voice: 'only to-day I happen to have a headache.'
-- 'Now you understand the way things happen here.'
在罗伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森的《金银岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Don't rightly know, don't you!Perhaps you don't happen to rightly know who you was speaking to, perhaps?
-- You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now?
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Events were rare which could rouse him to any show of spirit; but that day an event did happen which recalled the bright days of the harpooner.
-- Generally, when we can proceed no further, we have return still open to us; but here return was as impossible as advance, for every pass had closed behind us; and for the few moments when we were stationary, we were likely to be entirely blocked, which did indeed happen about two o'clock in the afternoon, the fresh ice forming around its sides with astonishing rapidity.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But if there did happen to come along a highly attractive individual of sufficient means well " she tailed off ironically.
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