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

accidents will happen

việc gì đến phải đến

V.

Occur, take place, come about, go on, come to pass,develop; betide, chance, prove, materialize, Colloq transpire,come off, Slang cook: What is happening? As it happens,everyone has already left.

Befall, become of: What willhappen to me if I refuse?

Happen on or upon. come upon,chance or hit on or upon, stumble on or upon, find, turn up,encounter, meet with: It was then that I happened on an oldletter of his.

V. & adv.

V.intr.

Occur (by chance or otherwise).

(foll. by to + infin.) have the (good or bad) fortune to (Ihappened to meet her).

(foll. by to) be the (esp. unwelcome)fate or experience of (what happened to you?; I hope nothinghappens to them).

(foll. by on) encounter or discover bychance.

Adv. N.Engl. dial. perhaps, maybe (happen it'llrain).

As it happens in fact; in reality (as it happens, itturned out well). [ME f. HAP + -EN(1)]