- n.
- 偶然，机会，运气
- vi.
- 偶然发生
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演变路径（由近及远）
词源说明
From Middle English hap, happe (“chance, hap, luck, fortune”), potentially cognate with or from Old English ġehæp (“fit, convenient”) and/or Old Norse happ (“hap, chance, good luck”), from Proto-Germanic *hampą (“convenience, happiness”), from Proto-Indo-European *kob- (“good fortune, prophecy; to bend, bow, fit in, work, succeed”).
Cognate with Icelandic happ (“hap, chance, good luck”). Related also to Icelandic heppinn (“lucky, fortunate, happy”), Old Danish hap (“fortunate”), Swedish hampa (“to turn out”), Old Church Slavonic кобь (kobĭ, “fate”), Old Irish cob (“victory”).
The verb is from Middle English happen, perhaps from Old English hæppan (“to move accidentally, slip”) and/or from Old Norse *happa, *heppa, from Proto-Germanic *hampijaną (“to fit in, be fitting”), from the noun. Cognate with Old Danish happe (“to chance, happen”), Norwegian heppa (“to occur, happen”).
释义（英文）
- (uncountable) A person's lot (good or bad), luck, fortune, fate.
- (countable) A stroke of good or bad luck, an occurrence or happening, especially an unexpected, random, chance
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词源说明
Clipping of happening.
释义（英文）
- (slang, in the plural) Happenings; events; goings-on. [from 20th c.]
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演变路径（由近及远）
- 英语
- 源自 ←新拉丁语
词源说明
Shortening of New Latin Haplochromis.
释义（英文）
- Any of the cichlid fishes of the tribe Haplochromini.