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happenstance

/hap-uhn-stans/US // ˈhæp ənˌstæns //UK // (ˈhæpənˌstæns) //

凑巧的是,碰巧的是,巧合,偶然

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a chance happening or event.

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Examples

  • Which is all some strange historical happenstance, considering Bartini was not actually born in Russia.

  • It was the kind of happenstance interaction anyone would likely write off as a weird New York City occurrence.

  • When Dawn Aponte came to the NFL in 1991, it was by “total happenstance,” as she recalls.

  • He’s shooting the ball and playing with confidence — the rebounding and blocking shots is not by happenstance.

  • A series of happenstances and a surprising federal law have contributed to the paucity of NFL games played on Friday, for instance.

  • All of these differences add up to make each planet unique, a product of happenstance and history.

  • The success that followed 16 years later was a matter of happenstance, not of strategy.

  • Out of the chaos of happenstance they were finding rules of order, certain formulas of behavior, equations of force.

  • As for deceased, his ontimely evaporation that a-way is but the frootes of happenstance.

  • This is contrasted to happenstance decision making based on impulsiveness and wishful thinking.

  • The German was just a happenstance, a castaway in the war for Arzachel.

  • But the happenstance habits of nature were steadily being integrated into the control program of man.