Now those things have happened, there is no room for regret.

既然事情已经发生了，就没有后悔的余地了。

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All summer long they have hardly met, and very many wonderful things have happened.

整个夏天他们几乎没有见面，发生了许多奇妙的事情。

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Instead, two things have happened.

恰恰相反，发生了两件事。

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"That's the reality. And I didn't have control over the things that happened to me or to my body.

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I'm just part of this long train of things that have happened, that I gain from it and then I can give too.

我只是存在过的一长列,事物的一部分，我从中获得，并给予他人。

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You can also use it to express things that you don't want to have happened.

你也可以用它来表达那些你不希望发生的事情。

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Year-to-date, major index returns in double digits would suggest good things have happened so far.

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On and off the pitch things have happened where no action was taken.

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"So many sick things have happened, " says Haruki Murakami, one of Japan's leading novelists (A Wild Sheep Chase, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle).

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