happen的用法总结大全

vi. 发生; 出现; 碰巧; 偶然遇到;

happen是不及物动词。happen在中学英语教材中的用法主要有以下三种：

1. "sth. happen 地点/时间"，意为"某地/某时发生了某事"。例如：

An accident happened in that street.那条街发生了一起事故。

What's happening outside?外面发生什么事了？

2. "sth. happen to sb."意为"某人出了某事(常指不好的事发生在某人身上)"。例如：

A car accident happened to him yesterday.昨天他发生了交通事故。

What happened to you?(=What was wrong / the matter with you?)你怎么啦？

3. "sb. happen to do sth."意为"某人碰巧做某事"。例如：

I happened to meet her in the street.我碰巧在街上遇见她。

It happened that I was out when he called.他来访时我碰巧不在。

1. happen为不及物动词，不能用于被动语态。例如，要表示"这个故事发生在去年。"不能说：The story was happened last year.但可以说：The story happened last year.

2. happen为短暂性动词，不能与表示一段时间的状语连用。例如，要表示"这事发生一年了。"不能说：This happened for one year.但可以说：This happened one year ago.

3. happen一般用来强调某事发生的偶然性。如要表示事先安排或有准备的事情或活动，则不能用happen，而要用take place。例如：

A sports meeting took place(=was held) in our school last week.上周我校举行了运动会。(不能说：A sports meeting happened in our school last week.)

1、We cannot say for sure what will happen

我们无法确定会发生什么事。

2、She wondered what would happen if her parents found her

她不知道如果父母找到自己会有什么结果。

3、If we had been spotted at that point, I don't know what would have happened to us

如果当时我们被发现了，我不知道会有什么后果。

4、We happened to discover we had a friend in common

我们凑巧发现我们有一个共同的朋友。

5、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。