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。
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- No, this could not be happening to her!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But happening to look up at Mrs. Pocket as she sat reading her book of dignities after prescribing Bed as a sovereign remedy for baby, I thought--Well--No, I wouldn't.
-- The little servant happening to be entering the fortress with two hot rolls, I passed through the postern and crossed the drawbridge in her company, and so came without announcement into the presence of Wemmick as he was making tea for himself and the Aged.
-- Among the loungers under the Boar's archway happened to be Trabb's Boy,--true to his ancient habit of happening to be everywhere where he had no business,--and Trabb's boy had seen me passing from Miss Havisham's in the direction of my dining-place.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I remember, when I was once interceding with the emperor for a criminal who had wronged his master of a great sum of money, which he had received by order and ran away with; and happening to tell his majesty, by way of extenuation, that it was only a breach of trust, the emperor thought it monstrous in me to offer as a defence the great-est aggravation of the crime; and truly I had little to say in return, farther than the common answer, that different nations had different customs; for, I confess, I was heartily ashamed.
-- He first took my altitude by a quadrant, and then, with a rule and compasses, described the dimensions and outlines of my whole body, all which he entered upon paper; and in six days brought my clothes very ill made, and quite out of shape, by happening to mistake a figure in the calcu-lation.
-- I freely own myself to have been struck with inexpress-ible delight, upon hearing this account: and the person who gave it me happening to understand the Balnibarbi-an language, which I spoke very well, I could not forbear breaking out into expressions, perhaps a little too extrava-gant.
-- But there happening few events of any moment among a people so well united, naturally disposed to every virtue, wholly governed by rea-son, and cut off from all commerce with other nations, the historical part is easily preserved without burdening their memories.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Mr. James Harthouse, happening to catch Tom's eye, remarked that he drank nothing, and filled his glass with his own negligent hand.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But she only said: 'What silly hocus-pocus!As if his little conceited con-sciousness could know what was happening as slowly as all that!It only means HE'S a physical failure on the earth, so he wants to make the whole universe a physical failure.
-- But I don't want to harp on myself, and I've nothing happening to me.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His eye happening to light upon John Baptist with this inquiry, that little man briskly shook his head in the negative, and repeated in an argumentative tone under his breath, altro, altro, altro, altro an infinite number of times.
-- This gentleman, happening also to be the Plaintiff in the Tip case, referred Mr Plornish to his solicitor, and declined to treat with Mr Plornish, or even to endure his presence in the yard, unless he appeared there with a twenty-pound note: in which case only, the gentleman would augur from appearances that he meant business, and might be induced to talk to him.
-- 'Yes, bless you, sir, for a dear creetur, and do it at once,' cried Affery, 'for she may be a-calling to me at this very present minute, or may be setting herself a fire and burning herself to death, or there's no knowing what may be happening to her, and me a-going out of my mind at thinking of it!'
-- 'A letter for you, sir, being left in the Lodge just this minute, and a message with it, I thought, happening to be there myself, sir, I would bring it to your room.'
-- Indeed, he was fearful of something happening to Mr Pancks in the violent conflict that took place between the breath he jerked out of himself and the smoke he jerked into himself.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- CHAPTER NINETEENWhile these things were happening at home, Amy was having hard times at Aunt March's.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was a fishy flavor to the milk, too, which I could not at all account for, till one morning happening to take a stroll along the beach among some fishermen's boats, I saw Hosea's brindled cow feeding on fish remnants, and marching along the sand with each foot in a cod's decapitated head, looking very slip-shod, I assure ye.
-- Again: "At all events, the whole circumstances taken together, all happening before my own eyes, and producing, at the time, impressions in my mind of decided, calculating mischief, on the part of the whale (many of which impressions I cannot now recall), induce me to be satisfied that I am correct in my opinion."
-- It is a thing not uncommonly happening to the whale-boats in those swarming seas; the sharks at times apparently following them in the same prescient way that vultures hover over the banners of marching regiments in the east.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But, as it chanced to be immediately under his nose, it followed, as a matter of course, that he looked all over his desk for it, without finding it; and happening in the course of his search to look straight before him, his gaze encountered the pale and terrified face of Oliver Twist: who, despite all the admonitory looks and pinches of Bumble, was regarding the repulsive countenance of his future master, with a mingled expression of horror and fear, too palpable to be mistaken, even by a half-blind magistrate.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- She felt all the perverseness of the mischance that should bring him where no one else was brought, and, to prevent its ever happening again, took care to inform him at first that it was a favourite haunt of hers.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- One evening in particular, about a week after Colonel Brandon left the country, his heart seemed more than usually open to every feeling of attachment to the objects around him; and on Mrs. Dashwood's happening to mention her design of improving the cottage in the spring, he warmly opposed every alteration of a place which affection had established as perfect with him.
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Do you know what strange thing is happening here!This donkey weeps."
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