I followed the hostess to the table, and when she pulled the chair out I sat on it, quite naturally, since it happened to be the chair I wanted to sit in.

我跟着女主人走到桌旁，等她把椅子拉出来，我便坐在上面，十分自然，因为这正是我想坐的椅子。

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It happened to be a fine day.

那天恰巧是个晴天。

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It happened to be a holiday.

适逢休假。

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"Definitely he will be right, that is going to be because before it happened it was right."

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Now, whoever guessed it was a pop tart was correct, that's what it happened to be so you get extra credit for that.

那些猜是果酱馅饼的人猜对了,就是这种食品,猜对的人可以获得额外加分

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If it happened to be that everybody dies in a room by themselves, that would be interesting.

如果他们都刚好死在自己的房间里，这也许有趣。

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Another Lindsay writes that when he went to Oxford, it happened to be the year that his college started admitting women students.

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It happened to be a perfect storm where I was making a swing change, and I was hurt, and I couldn't devote any time to it.

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It happened to be in the Washington, D.

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