The first letters he read were very formal, very carefully written and dealt almost entirely with local happenings. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
He is not an inventor as much as he is a detective; he picks up the clews to certain happenings and constructs a working theory to fit them. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰.历史性发明.
To some extent there has been a popular notion that many of Edison's successes have been due to mere dumb fool luck--to blind, fortuitous happenings. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.
Mutiny on the high sea may have been common a hundred years ago, but in this good year 1888 it is the least likely of happenings. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯.人猿泰山.