occur

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oc·cur /əˈkɜː $ əˈkɜːr/ S3 W1 AWL verb (occurred, occurring) [intransitiveI] formal

1 HAPPENto happen 发生

A third of accidental deaths occur in the home.

有三分之一的意外死亡发生在家里。

The explosion occurred at 5.30 a.m.

爆炸发生在清晨5点30分。

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In everyday English, people usually say happen rather than occur: 在日常英语中，人们一般说happen，而不说occur

The accident happened while she was at school.

事故是在她上学时发生的。

2 [always + adverbadv/prepositionprep]EXIST to happen or exist in a particular place or situation 〔在特定地点或情况下〕发生，存在

occur in/among etc

Whooping cough occurs mainly in young children.

百日咳多发于幼儿。

The highest rates of unemployment occur in the inner urban areas.

内城地区失业率最高。

3 occur to somebody phrasal verbphr v formal THINK something/HAVE A THOUGHTif an idea or a thought occurs to you, it suddenly comes into your mind 〔主意或想法突然〕浮现于脑中，被想起，被想到

it occurs to somebody to do something

I suppose it didn’t occur to you to phone the police?

我想你根本就没想到打电话报警吧？

It never seems to occur to my children to contact me.

我的孩子们似乎从来都想不到和我联系。

it occurs to somebody (that)

It had never occurred to him that he might be falling in love with her.

他从未想到自己可能会爱上她。

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it occurs to somebody (that)• As I try and fail to cross the street, it occurs to me that even the chaos is ruled by convention.• He's like a policeman taking evidence, and it occurs to me that it's just what he might be.• I am being set up in the ward and it occurs to me that I am feeling fine.• I haven't walked along here for years - not, it occurs to me, for fourteen years.• It is then that it occurs to me that I might end up not liking Victorine.• It was never our intention to hurt anyone and it occurs to us in retrospect that the ad was insensitive.• Then it occurs to us that we could raise the sails to increase our visibility.• We respond more with glances, it occurs to me, than we do with words.

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occur• Giraldes claims he was with his wife when the killings occurred.• The accident occurred about 11: 40 p. m. Friday.• He decided then that he wouldn't let that situation occur again.• In young children, construction occurs almost exclusively when they perform actions on objects.• Chromium and nickel occur commonly in areas which are also rich in magnesium.• The Japanese "f' sound does not occur in European languages.• When I was a small boy, quite serious fires seemed to occur in Salisbury with great frequency.• Substantially the reverse occurs in the adversely affected cigarette industry.• The disease occurs mainly in children, but can also occur in adults.• The court will have to decide exactly what occurred on the night Mellor died.• It would be unfortunate if something occurred to curtail our partnership.• It occurred to him now that Blackbeard had got on his tracks in the fog.• Major earthquakes like this occur very rarely.

occur in/among etc• The embezzlement allegedly occurred in 1988 and 1989 when Le Floch-Prigent ran the state-owned oil company, Elf-Aquitaine.• The killing, which occurred in 1988, was met with worldwide outrage and focused attention on environmental destruction of the Amazon.• These are now due to occur in 1991, having been postponed on several occasions over the past few years.• This kind of tremor also occurs in anxious patients.• This can only occur in participatory or self-managing democracy.• There is no reason to doubt that such mixtures of behaviour would not occur in social animals.• Given the current recognition system, it is most unlikely that such examples will occur in this form.• Exchange and communication occur in this realm through a complex network of social relations.

Origin occur

(1500-1600) Latin occurrere, from currere “to run”

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