Because something happened. If nothing happened, there wouldn't be change.

因为某事发生了。如果无事发生，不会有变迁。

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One day something happened.

有一天发生了一件事。

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Something happened at the moment.

那一刻发生了一件事。

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But as the passenger jet climbed to about nine hundred meters in the air, something happened.

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And so what this gave us was a very, very useful general criterion for determining whether something happened spontaneously.

这个告诉我们的是一个,非常非常一般的判据,他能帮助我们判断一个过程是否自发进行。

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And my plan was going along fine until something happened, and what happened was that chemistry was just way more interesting than I anticipated.

但我觉得最好在第一学期就把化学课选了,所以我就这么干了,我的计划一直都很顺利,直到我发现化学比我想象中的要有趣的多。

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If something happened to Yvette Mulvey now, Lisette would be placed in a foster home.

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Something happened in March and April to galvanize Weiner into even more intensely reckless behavior.

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On this one magical night something happened no living baseball fan has ever seen.

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