happening是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 事件，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《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There, his eyes happening to catch the tall joker writing up his joke, he called to him across the way: 'Say, then, my Gaspard, what do you do there?'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- he said inwardly to Frou-Frou, as he listened for what was happening behind.
-- And immediately after this came the delicious, slow saunter, with his hand on the scythe, during which he could wipe away the streaming sweat, take deep breaths of air, and look about at the long string of mowers and at what was happening around in the forest and the country.
-- Happening to meet Shtcherbatsky, Kitty's cousin, in the railway train, Levin greatly astonished him by his depression.
-- But that did not prevent such quarrels from happening again, and exceedingly often too, on the most unexpected and trivial grounds.
-- Levin involuntarily thought with him of what it was that was happening to him now, but in spite of all his mental efforts to go along with him he saw by the expression of that calm, stern face that for the dying man all was growing clearer and clearer that was still as dark as ever for Levin.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was indeed nothing that was happening or likely to happen in Wheatsylvania which Mr. Tozer did not know and explain.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Something was happening to him entirely new, sudden and unknown.
-- You see, Rodya, all sorts of things have been happening while you have been laid up.
-- And indeed everything happening here seems somehow far away.'
-- 'What made me think that something of the sort must be happening to you?'
-- He had his own object he simply wanted to find out at once what was happening here.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ham Peggotty, who went to the national school, and was a verydragon at his catechism, and who may therefore be regarded as acredible witness, reported next day, that happening to peep in atthe parlour-door an hour after this, he was instantly descried byMiss Betsey, then walking to and fro in a state of agitation, andpounced upon before he could make his escape.
-- Happening to arrive at thedoor as it was opened to the afternoon milkman, I was reminded ofMr. and Mrs. Micawber more forcibly yet.
-- The shock of such an event happeningso suddenly, and happening to one with whom I had been in anyrespect at variance- the appalling vacancy in the room he hadoccupied so lately, where his chair and table seemed to wait forhim, and his handwriting of yesterday was like a ghost- theindefinable impossibility of separating him from the place, andfeeling, when the door opened, as if he might come in- the lazyhush and rest there was in the office, and the insatiable relish withwhich our people talked about it, and other people came in and outall day, and gorged themselves with the subject- this is easilyintelligible to any one.
-- I had engaged a bed at a decent ale-houseclose by, and was going out at the gate, when, happening to turnmy head, I saw a light in the Doctor's study.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Only think of our happening to meet him! How very odd!It was quite a chance, he said, that he had not gone round by Randalls.
-- From Harriet's happening not to be at Hartfield, and her father's being pres-ent to engage Mr. Elton, she had a quarter of an hour of the lady's conversation to herself, and could composedly attend to her; and the quarter of an hour quite convinced her that Mrs. Elton was a vain woman, extremely well satisfied with herself, and thinking much of her own importance; that she meant to shine and be very superior, but with manners 328 Emmawhich had been formed in a bad school, pert and familiar; that all her notions were drawn from one set of people, and one style of living; that if not foolish she was ignorant, and that her society would certainly do Mr. Elton no good.
-- The two eldest little Knightleys were engaged to pay their grandpapa and aunt a visit of some weeks in the spring, and their papa now proposed bringing them, and staying one whole day at Hartfield which one day would be the very day of this party. His professional engagements did not allow of his being put off, but both fa-ther and daughter were disturbed by its happening so.
-- The pleasantness of the morning had induced him to walk forward, and leave his horses to meet him by another road, a mile or two beyond Highbury and happening to have borrowed a pair of scissors the night before of Miss Bates, and to have forgotten to restore them, he had been obliged to stop at her door, and go in for a few minutes: he was therefore later than he had intended; and being on foot, was unseen by the whole party till almost close to them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Sheep are such unfortunate animals! there's always something happening to them!I never knew a flock pass a year without getting into some scrape or other."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- During this interval, one of the servants, happening to examine the apparel she had worn on the night of the murder, had dis-covered in her pocket the picture of my mother, which had been judged to be the temptation of the murderer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Things were always happening under her mother's eyes which shenoticed no more than if they had not happened at all.
-- Nothing is worth what is happening to us now and what may happen, for if the Yankeeswhip us the future will be one of incredible horror.
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