accident
n. 意外事件, 机遇, 事故, 次要方面 [化] 意外事故; 事故
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教材释义与例句
事故；意外；[法] 意外事件；机遇
in a way that is not planned or intended
I met her quite by accident (= completely by accident ) .
我遇见她完全是偶然。
The discovery was made almost by accident.
这项发现几乎纯属意外。
The pilot, whether by accident or design (= whether it was planned or not planned ) , made the plane do a sharp turn.
不知是有意还是无意，那名飞行员让飞机来了个急转弯。
释义与例句
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An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
事故
意外
可数 不可数to die by an accident such as an act of God
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An unexpected event with negative consequences occurring without the intention of the one suffering the consequences, and (in the strict sense) not directly caused by humans.
casus; such unforeseen, extraordinary, extraneous interference as is out of the range of ordinary calculation.
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A collision or crash of a vehicle, aircraft, or other form of transportation that causes damage to the transportation involved; and sometimes injury or death to the transportation's occupants or bystanders in close proximity. (but see Usage notes)
车祸
可数 不可数 交通There was a huge accident on I5 involving 15 automobiles.
My insurance went up after the second accident in three months.
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Any chance event.
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Chance; random chance.
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Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
可数 不可数Beauty is an accident.
Lexical gaps are called accidental because their existence is by accident; it is not essential.
14thC, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale in The Canterbury Tales, These cookes how they stamp, and strain, and grind, / And turne substance into accident, / To fulfill all thy likerous talent!
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Any property, fact, or relation that is the result of chance or is nonessential or nonsubstantive.
A property attached to a word, but not essential to it, such as gender, number, or case.
可数 不可数 语言学An adjective, so called because adjectitious, or added to a substantive, denotes some quality or accident of the substantive to which it is joined […]
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An instance of incontinence.
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An instance of incontinence.
Urine or feces excreted due to incontinence.
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An unintended pregnancy.
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An unintended pregnancy.
A person born from an unintended pregnancy.
可数 贬义 委婉 幽默 不可数Taylor was our sweet little accident, and we're so glad!
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An irregular surface feature with no apparent cause.
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A sudden discontinuity of ground such as fault of great thickness, bed or lentil of unstable ground.
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A point or mark which may be retained or omitted in a coat of arms.
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Designating any form of transportation involved in an accident.
交通The NTSB report revealed that the accident airplane was a Cessna 172.
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *ḱh₂d-der. Proto-Italic *kadō Latin cadō Latin accidō Latin accidēnslbor. Old French accidentbor. Middle English accident English accident First attested in the late 14th century. From Middle English accident, from Old French accident, from Latin accidēns, present active participle of accidō (“happen”); from ad (“to”) + cadō (“fall”). See cadence, case. In the sense “unintended pregnancy”, first attested in 1932.
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