Noun:

1. an event that happens

a happening place

时髦的地方

There have been strange happenings here lately.

这儿最近发生了一些怪事。

...the most happening place at the moment, the Que Club.

时下最热门的去处——Que俱乐部

...a definitive area-by-area guide to the hip and happening bands.

介绍各个地区新潮流行乐队的权威指南

The Budapest office plans to hire freelance reporters to cover the latest happenings.

布达佩斯办事处计划聘用自由撰稿记者来报道最近发生的一些事件。

Application Engineer, currently base in Intel APAC R & D Center in Shanghai, China.

应用工程师, 目前在位于中国上海的英特尔亚太 研发 中心工作.

The child at the back craned forward to see what was happening.

后面的孩子探出头看看出了什么事.

Half the pleasure of coming home is finding out what's been happening while you were away.

回家的一大乐事在于发现自己不在时家里发生了什么事情.

Her words brought home the enormity of what was happening.

她的话让人意识到所发生事情的严重性.

Seemingly, we can do nothing to prevent this from happening.

我们似乎没有什么办法阻止这件事发生.

Let's race to see what is happening.

咱们跑去看看发生了什么事情.

They rushed to see what was happening.

他们冲出去看发生了什么事.

There is no fear of that happening.

那事绝不可能发生.

People gathered round, curious to know what was happening.

人们围聚拢来, 很想知道发生了什么事情.

The violence is emblematic of what is happening in our inner cities.

这种暴力行为正标示了我们市中心贫民区的状况。

There is very little likelihood of that happening.

几乎没有发生那种事情的可能。

Quite a few people were milling about, but nothing was happening.

有不少人在附近转来转去，可是什么事情也没有发生。

There must be changes in the law quickly to stop this sort of thing ever happening to anyone else.

我们必须迅速修订法律，以杜绝此类事情发生在其他人身上。

'God knows what's happening in that madman's mind,' she muttered.

她咕哝着：“天知道那个疯子在想什么。”

Things were happening too quickly and Brian was confused.

事情发生得太快，把布赖恩给弄糊涂了。

The killing in Pensacola is emblematic of a lot of the violence that is happening around the world.

彭萨柯拉的杀人事件是世界各地发生的大量暴力事件的典型代表。

Newspapers seized on the results as proof that global warming wasn'treally happening.

各报纸纷纷以此结果为证据来证明全球变暖并没有真正发生。

The project would give scientists new insights into what is happening to the earth'satmosphere.

该项目将使科学家对地球大气层的状况有更新的深入了解。

He started bossing people around and I didn't like what was happening.

他开始把别人差来遣去,而我不喜欢他这样.

If one looks at the longer run, a lot of positive things are happening.

如果把目光放长远些，就会发现很多积极的事情正在发生。

There are many factors weighing against the meeting happening.

有好多因素影响了会议的召开。

I thought: 'This cannot be happening, somebody must be playing a joke'.

我想：“这不可能发生，肯定是谁在开玩笑。”

It kind of gives us an idea of what's happening.

这让我们大概了解了正在发生的事情。

What is happening is an abomination.

正在发生的事令人非常反感。

• happening">events happening事件出现
• happen发生

• He knew the happenin' cinemas, jazz clubs, parties.

  出自：H. Kureishi

accident，incident，event，occurrence，happening

这些名词均有“事故、事件”之意。

accident强调偶然或意外发生的不幸事情。

incident既可指小事件或附带事件，又可指政治上具有影响的事件或事变。

event可指任何大小事件，但尤指历史上的重大事件。

occurrence多指日常生活中发生的一般事件，有时也指偶然发生的事。

happening与occurrence相似，多指日常生活中发生的一般事件，有时也指偶然发生的事。