| 词组 | accident |
| 释义 | 1．accident 通常指偶然发生的不幸事件，incident 通常指任何不很重要的事件。如被电车撞倒是 accident，在电车上碰到多年不见的老朋友是 incident。在外交和政治上往往用 incident 指可能引起战事的“事件”，如 border incident。 2．accident 单独用指“偶然”，不指“不幸”，如 She was twenty when accident brought her to the notice of the great author 和 That was merely a matter of accident。by accident 作“偶然地”解，并没有“不幸”的意思。（by accident 的反义表达方式是 by design 或 on purpose。） 3．说“某人或某物遭到的不幸事件”，在指人或物的词的前面用 to，如 There was an accident to the little boy 和 Owing to an accident to the machines one department was closed down。 4．He has met with an accident 作“他死了”解，She had an accident 作“她未结婚而生了孩子”解。这都是婉转的说法。 5．accident 后面偶尔接以 that 引导的从句。例如：His absence was due to the accident that the letter asking him to come had gone astray. 6．accident 有时指“偶然成功的人或事”，如 a political accident 是“一个不靠本领而适逢其会地成功的政界人物”。Her Spanish is an accident of living with a Spanish family for a year 是“她的西班牙语是因为跟一个西班牙家庭住了一年而偶然学得的”。 |
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