happen | Từ điển Anh Mỹ
happen verb [I] [HAVE EXISTENCE]
What happened to Phil? I thought he would be here by now.
happen verb [I] [CHANCE]
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If they do, judgments must be made about why this has happened and a further contribution to our knowledge is achieved.
In existing herding models, either a crisis happens or it does not.
However, it happened that another criterion was to hand.
A key question, therefore, is just what happens to language learning as we get older.
What happens, in fact, is that the major par t of the approximant itself is devoiced.
Growing up in a small country also keeps you aware of what happens in other parts of the world.
Is it helpful in understanding things that they see happening?
Now consider what happens if learning plays a role.
Think of something that has happened to you or someone you know and tell us about it.
With a small number of exceptions, this has not happened thus far.
One trembles to think what would have happened to our country had we not chosen that remarkable woman to lead us.
A natural idea is to look at what happens when the regularisation parameters vanishes.
What happens if, instead, all the new funds are used to purchase additional livestock in the same proportion as current livestock holdings?
They formulate a critical archaeology that recognises the struggles against individualism, against the limits of the possible, and then asks what happened to the alternatives.
They just need children, no matter what happens.
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DEFINITIONS3
1
to do something by chance
I happened to meet an old friend in town.
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To do something without preparation
rush into
fall into
plunge in
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2
spokenused for asking something politely
Do you happen to have a pen I can borrow?
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Ways of asking questions and making requests
after you
any chance of...?
any luck?
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3
spokenused for expressing an opinion firmly, because you are angry
I happen to live here too – don’t leave your rubbish everywhere!
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perhaps
frankly
personally
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Definition and synonyms of happen to do something from the online English dictionary from Macmillan Education.
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