event
event
noun
in any event (或 at all events)
eventless
adjective
eventlessness
noun
语源
noun
- a thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance
事情；事件（尤指重大事件）
the media's focus on events in the Middle East.
媒体对中东发生的事件的关注。
■a planned public or social occasion
（计划好了的）公众活动；重要社会活动
staff have been holding a number of events to raise money for charity.
员工已经在举行许多慈善捐款活动。
■each of several particular contests making up a sports competition
体育比赛项目
he repeated the success in the four-lap, 600 cc event.
他在四圈汽缸容量为600立方厘米的赛车比赛中又获成功。
■(Physics)a single occurrence of a process, e.g. the ionization of one atom
(物理)事件
in any event (或 at all events)
- whatever happens or may have happened
不管怎样，无论如何
in any event, I was not in a position to undertake such a task.
不管怎样，我都不可能承担这样的任务。
- as it turns (or turned) out
结果；到头来
he was sent on this important and, in the event, quite fruitless mission.
他被派去完成这个重要，但结果却一无所获的使命。
- if —— happens
如果发生…；万一
this will reduce the chance of serious injury in the event of an accident.
如果发生意外事故，这会减少重伤的可能性。
- if; should it happen that
假若；倘若
in the event that an attack is launched, the defenders will have been significantly weakened by air attacks.
如果发动攻击，空中打击将使防卫者的防卫能力大大减弱。
- if that happens
如果是那样的话；在那种情况下
in that event, the US would incline toward a lifting of the arms embargo.
在那种情况下，美国可能会取消武器禁运。
eventless
adjective
eventlessness
noun
语源
- late 16th cent.: from Latin eventus, from evenire 'result, happen', from e- (variant of ex-) 'out of' + venire 'come'
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