event
/ɪˈvent/noun
1- a thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance事情; 事件; 大事：
the media's focus on events in the Middle East.
媒体对中东发生的事件的关注。
1.1
- a planned public or social occasion（计划好了的）公众活动; 社交场合：
staff have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity.
员工们已经在举行一些慈善捐款活动。
1.2
- each of several particular contests making up a sports competition赛事, 比赛项目：
he repeated the success in the four-lap, 600 cc event.
他在四圈的、汽缸排量为600立方厘米的赛车比赛中再次获得成功。
1.3
- Physics a single occurrence of a process, e.g. the ionization of one atom【物理】事件。
短语
in any event （或at all events）
- whatever happens or may have happened不管怎样, 无论如何：
in any event, I was not in a position to undertake such a task.
不管怎样, 我都不可能承担这样的任务。
in the event
- as it turns (or turned) out结果; 到头来：
he was sent on this important and, in the event, quite fruitless mission.
他被派去完成这个重要的、但结果却是相当不成功的使命。
in the event of -
- if - happens如果发生; 万一：
this will reduce the chance of serious injury in the event of an accident.
如果发生意外事故, 这将减少造成重伤的可能性。
in the event that
- if; should it happen that假若; 倘若：
in the event that an attack is launched, the defenders will have been significantly weakened by air attacks.
如果发动攻击, 空中打击将使防卫者的防卫能力大大减弱。
in that event
- if that happens如果是那样的话; 在那种情况下：
in that event, the US would incline toward a lifting of the arms embargo.
在那种情况下, 美国可能会取消武器禁运。
派生词
eventless
adjectiveeventlessness
noun词源
late 16th cent.: from Latin eventus, from evenire 'result, happen', from e- （variant of ex-） 'out of'+venire 'come'.