释义 |
happenstancehap‧pen‧stance /ˈhæpənstæns/ noun [countable, uncountable] literary  happenstanceOrigin: 1800-1900 happen + circumstance - And they both landed by happenstance rather than design in the Motor City.
- Dunning and Sasbach, two inconspicuous villages which happenstance has made part of my experience.
- In deep antiquity, vast, sprawling empires rose and fell, usually the result of happenstance rather than deliberation.
- In this happenstance, faithful friend Lobo, these white ladies would pay anything for milk.
- No, happenstance will never make for beauty.
- They have, through happenstance, and the nature of urban life that crunches lives and experiences together, simply become entangled.
- Through either grace or happenstance, the architecture of the 140-year-old building embodies the spirit of the contemporary parish.
- We go to any lengths to avoid such a happenstance in baseball.
chance, or something that happens by chance |