Happen to be là gì

Which is not going to happen under NDC.

Look what happened under the 1/11 regime.

Such a thing does not happen under conditions of certainty.

I’d not denying the crash didn’t happen under Bush, but let’s get real for a second.

We’ll pay for what’s happening under Obama, dearly pay, in the years down the road.

To best tap this potential, we need to know more about what is happening under the sea.

But there wasn’t the total seperation of commerce, industry and housing that happened under the post-WWII town planning regime.

If the algo was going nuts last night, why not kill the program? Why wait so long? Your right, something else is happening under the covers.

The hope was that such an event, bringing together differing and conflicting perspectives, might happen under the broad banner of Choose Youth.

Not only such outbursts we also condemn also certain other anti social activities happening under his very nose with or without his knowledge.

Happen có thể đi với động từ nguyên thể có to để diễn tả việc gì đó xảy ra một cách tình cờ. Ví dụ:

If you happen to see Joan, ask her to phone me. (Nếu cậu có vô tình gặp Joan, hãy bảo cô ấy gọi cho tớ nhé.)


One day I happened to get talking to a woman on a train, and she turned out to be a cousin of my mother's. (Một ngày nọ tớ vô tình bắt chuyện với 1 người phụ nữ trên tàu, cô ấy hóa ra là em họ của mẹ tớ.)

Trong các câu có if in case, ta có thể nhấn mạnh vào ý "vô tình" làm gì bằng cách thêm should trước happen. Ví dụ:

Let me know if you should happen to need any help. (Hãy cho tớ biết nếu không may cậu cần đến sự giúp đỡ.)


I'll take my swimming things, in case I should happen to find a pool open. (Tớ sẽ mang theo đồ bơi, biết đâu lại vô tình thấy hồ bơi nào mở cửa.)
 

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“Happen to be/do something” nghĩa là tình cờ, vô tình, chẳng may trở thành/làm điều gì.

Ví dụ

I’m a provost (hiệu trưởng) who happens to have a disability.

French, although there’s nothing wrong with that, I’m not racist, he just happened to be of that persuasion (tin tưởng). He was incredibly highly strung. He was a total drama queen.

I happen to think it’s very sexy to lay in bed half naked while eating a whole box of macaroni (mì ống) and cheese and watching The Golden Girls. Which is what I happen to be doing right now.

At a dusty training camp in a place more foreign to him than anywhere he had ever been, Henry Kissinger was made a citizen of the United States. There was little ceremony: it was March of 1943, and at Camp Croft in South Carolina, the army routinely naturalized (cho nhập tịch) the new recruits (tân binh) who happened to be immigrants (dân nhập cư).

Thu Phương

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