happen

happen /'hæpən/
  • nội động từ
    • xảy đến, xảy ra; ngẫu nhiên xảy ra, tình cờ xảy ra
      • it happened last night: câu chuyện xảy ra đêm qua
    • tình cờ, ngẫu nhiên
      • I happened to mention it: tình cờ tôi nói đến điều đó
    • (+ upon) tình cờ gặp, ngẫu nhiên gặp; ngẫu nhiên thấy
      • to happen upon someone: tình cờ gặp ai
    • as it happens
      • ngẫu nhiên mà, tình cờ mà
    • if anything should happen to me
      • nếu tôi có mệnh hệ nào
 xảy ra

Xem thêm: hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place, befall, bechance, materialize, materialise, find, chance, bump, encounter



happen

Từ điển Collocation

happen verb

ADV. actually, really She couldn't quite believe that all this was actually happening to her. | just I don't remember learning to swim, it just happened. | spontaneously Sometimes fun activities just happen spontaneously; at other times they take careful planning. | overnight Change doesn't happen overnight.

VERB + HAPPEN be going to They could only wait and see what was going to happen. | be likely to | be bound to Mistakes are bound to happen sometimes. | tend to What tends to happen is that students spend the first week of the course in a blind panic, but settle down by the second or third week. | want sth to | make sth You have to make things happen if you want them to happen. | let sth Don't just sit back and let it happen.

PREP. to She didn't know what was happening to her.

Từ điển WordNet

    v.

  • come to pass; hap, go on, pass off, occur, pass, fall out, come about, take place

    What is happening?

    The meeting took place off without an incidence

    Nothing occurred that seemed important

  • happen, occur, or be the case in the course of events or by chance; "It happens that today is my birthday"; "These things befell" (Santayana); befall, bechance
  • chance to be or do something, without intention or causation

    I happen to have just what you need!

  • come into being; become reality; materialize, materialise

    Her dream really materialized

  • come upon, as if by accident; meet with; find, chance, bump, encounter

    We find this idea in Plato

    I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here

    She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day

English Synonym and Antonym Dictionary

happens|happened|happening
syn.: chance come off occur pass take place turn up