【happen音标】 英[ˈhæpən] 美[ˈhæpən]
【单词释义】 happen是什么意思：
vi.(尤指偶然)发生；碰巧；出现；偶然遇到
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[第三人称单数] happens
[单词现在分词] happening
[单词过去式] happened
[单词过去分词] happened
【happen形近词/近似词】
deepen v.变深，加深；（使声音）变低沉
open adj.开着的；张开的；营业着的 v.（打）开；睁开；张开；开张营业
ripen v. （使）成熟
aspen n.山杨；(美洲)颤杨 adj.山杨的；(像颤杨树叶)颤抖的
sharpen v. (使)变锋利；加强；削尖
【单词例句】
◇ Nothing could surprise Alice now.'Well,I'll eat it,'she said.'If I get taller,I can take the key off the table.And if I get smaller,I can get under the door.One way or another,I'll get into the garden.So it doesn't matter what happens!'
现在没什么能让爱丽丝奇怪的了。“好，吃就吃，”她说。“如果我长高了，就能从桌子上拿钥匙了。如果我变小点就能穿过门了。不管怎样，我得去花园里。发生什么都不要紧！”
---- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1)
◇ Brushing your teeth should always happen last thing before bed.
刷牙永远应该是睡觉前做的最后一件事。
---- How to properly brush your teeth
◇ And so it happened that the butterfly got no wife at all. He had been too long choosing, which is always a bad plan. And the butterfly became what is called an old bachelor.
这么一来，蝴蝶就没有找到太太的机会了。他挑选太久了，不是好办法。结果蝴蝶就成了大家所谓的老单身汉了。
---- The Butterfly
◇ "These coffins," she said, "were intended for your brothers, but they secretly ran away before you were born," and she told her how everything had happened.
她说：“这些棺材是为你的哥哥们准备的，但他们在你出世前偷偷逃跑了。”王后把事情的的经过原原本本地告诉了小姑娘。
---- The Twelve Brothers
◇ Then it happened one day while the queen was sitting in her bath, that a frog crept out of the water onto the ground and said to her, "Your wish shall be fulfilled, and before a year passes you will bring a daughter into the world."
有一天，王后正在河边散步，一只青蛙把头浮出水面对她说：“你的愿望就会实现了，不久你就会生下一个女儿的。”
---- Little Brier-Rose
◇ A boy fell ill. His organs were damaged by the radiation of an infrared ray stove. But before the ambulance arrived, a number of other injuries happened to this unlucky boy over and over again.
有个孩子病倒了，他的体内器官被一台红外线烤炉的放射线灼伤了。但是在救护车到来前，这个不幸的孩子身上还一而再、再而三地发生了许多别的伤害。
---- First Aid
◇ But what those gestures really mean is subjective in different cultures. Thus, misunderstandings happen now and then in today’s world of cultural crossroads.
但是在不同的文化中那些手势表达的真正意思是很主观的。由此，误会就时不时地发生在今天这个文化交叉碰撞的世界里。
---- A Misunderstanding
◇ And Karen believed all this happened on account of the red shoes, but the old lady thought they were horrible, and they were burnt.
珈伦以为这是因为她那双红鞋的缘故。不过老太太说红鞋很讨厌，所以把这双鞋烧掉了。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ "How is this?" said the Emperor to himself. "I can see nothing! This is indeed a terrible affair! Am I a simpleton, or am I unfit to be an Emperor? That would be the worst thing that could happen."
“这是怎么一回事儿呢？”皇帝心里想。“我什么也没有看见！这真是荒唐！难道我是一个愚蠢的人吗？难道我不配做皇帝吗？这真是我从来没有碰见过的一件最可怕的事情。”
◇ The other factor affecting how well a beverage hydrates relates to a drink's nutrient composition. For example, milk was found to be even more hydrating than plain water because it contains the sugar lactose, some protein and some fat, all of which help to slow the emptying of fluid from the stomach and keep hydration happening over a longer period of time.
另一个影响饮料补水功效的因素和饮料的营养成分有关。例如，研究人员发现，牛奶的补水功效甚至比白水更佳，因为牛奶含有乳糖、蛋白质和脂肪，这些成分都有助于减缓液体从胃里排空的速度，延长补水的功效。
---- Which drink is best for hydration? Hint: It isn't water