能清楚简单地讲下 take place,happen,occur,come about的区别么

这些词或短语都有“发生”的意思，但用法各不相同，区别如下：

(1). take place 表示“发生、举行、举办”，一般指非偶然性事件的“发生”，即这种事件的发生一定有某种原因或事先的安排，例如：

Great changes have taken place in our hometown during the past ten years.

The Olympic Games of 2008 will take place in Beijing.

(2) .happen作“发生、碰巧”解，一般用于偶然或突发性事件，例如：

What happened to you? (一般不说：What did you happen?)

Maybe something unexpected happened.

I happened to see him on my way home.

= It happened that I saw him on my way home.

(3). occur作“发生、想到、突然想起”解，其意义相当于happen，例如：

What has occurred? (=What has happened?)

A big earthquake occurred (=happened) in the south of China last month.

It occurred to me that she didn’t know I had moved into the new house.

(4). come about表示“发生、产生”，多指事情已经发生了，但还不知道为什么，常用于疑问句和否定句，例如：

When Mother woke up, she didn’t know what had come about.

I’ll never understand how it came about that you were