这些名词均有“事故、事件”之意。
accident强调偶然或意外发生的不幸事情。
incident既可指小事件或附带事件,又可指政治上具有影响的事件或事变。
event可指任何大小事件,但尤指历史上的重大事件。
occurrence多指日常生活中发生的一般事件,有时也指偶然发生的事。
happening与occurrence相似,多指日常生活中发生的一般事件,有时也指偶然发生的事。
重要短语
happen to be碰巧是;恰巧是
as it happens碰巧;偶然发生
happen on偶然遇到或发现
happen to meet偶然遇见
"God knows what's happening in that madman's mind," she muttered.
她咕哝着:“天知道那个疯子在想什么。”
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Half the pleasure of coming home is finding out what's been happening while you were away.
回家的一大乐事在于发现自己不在时家里发生了什么事情.
来源:《简明英汉词典》I thought: "This cannot be happening, somebody must be playing a joke".
我想:“这不可能发生,肯定是谁在开玩笑。”
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn'treally happening.
各报纸纷纷以此结果为证据来证明全球变暖并没有真正发生。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》The killing in Pensacola is emblematic of a lot of the violence that is happening around the world.
彭萨柯拉的杀人事件是世界各地发生的大量暴力事件的典型代表。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Quite a few people were milling about, but nothing was happening.
有不少人在附近转来转去,可是什么事情也没有发生。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》He hasn't looked very carefully into what was happening inside the ruling party.
他没有认真研究执政党内部正在发生什么。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》He seems to be so blinkered that he cannot see what is happening around him.
他心胸如此狭隘,对周遭之事完全不了解。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》The violence is emblematic of what is happening in our inner cities.
这种暴力行为正标示了我们市中心贫民区的状况。
来源:《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》There must be changes in the law quickly to stop this sort of thing ever happening to anyone else.
我们必须迅速修订法律,以杜绝此类事情发生在其他人身上。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》Many officers I spoke to found it hard to believe what was happening around them.
很多和我谈过的官员都觉得发生在他们周围的事情令人难以置信。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》It is all too easy to lose sight of what is happening on our own doorstep.
我们很容易无视身边之事。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》I get so absorbed in doing something that I am unaware of things happening round me.
我做事太过专心以致于对周围发生的事情丝毫未察觉。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》He started bossing people around and I didn't like what was happening.
他开始把别人差来遣去,而我不喜欢他这样.
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》If one looks at the longer run, a lot of positive things are happening.
如果把目光放长远些,就会发现很多积极的事情正在发生。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》The project would give scientists new insights into what is happening to the earth'satmosphere.
该项目将使科学家对地球大气层的状况有更新的深入了解。
来源:《柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典》
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