1 VERB （偶然）发生，出现 Something that happens occurs or is done without being planned. （偶然）发生，出现
SYN occur, take place, come about, follow
2 VERB （作为结果）发生，产生 If something happens, it occurs as a result of a situation or course of action. （作为结果）发生，产生
3 VERB （尤指不愉快的事）发生（在…身上）;(某人)遭到;遇到 When something, especially something unpleasant, happens to you, it takes place and affects you. （尤指不愉快的事）发生（在…身上）;(某人)遭到;遇到
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If we had been spotted at that point, I don't know what would have happened to us. [VERB + to]
如果当时我们被发现了，我不知道会有什么后果。
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It's the best thing that ever happened to me. [VERB to noun]
这是我所遇到的最好的事情了。
SYN befall, overtake, become of, betide
4 VERB 碰巧;凑巧 If you happen to do something, you do it by chance. If it happens that something is the case, it occurs by chance. 碰巧;凑巧
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We happened to discover we had a friend in common. [VERB to-infinitive]
我们凑巧发现我们有一个共同的朋友。
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I looked in the nearest paper, which happened to be the Daily Mail. [VERB to-infinitive]
我仔细看了一下离自己最近的那份报纸，正巧是份《每日邮报》。
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If it happens that I'm wanted badly somewhere, my mother will take the call and phone through to me here. [VERB that]
如果凑巧有人着急找我，我母亲会接电话，然后再打电话到这里转告我。
SYN chance, turn out [informal] , have the fortune to be
5 PHRASE 碰巧，恰恰（尤引出令人意外的事） You use as it happens in order to introduce a statement, especially one that is rather surprising. 碰巧，恰恰（尤引出令人意外的事）
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She called Amy to see if she had any idea of her son's whereabouts. As it happened, Amy had.
她打电话给埃米，看她是否知道自己儿子的行踪。埃米还真就知道。
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