词组 | incidental |
释义 | incidental When used with a preposition, incidental is usually combined with to: • ... labor problems incidental to rapidly expanding factories —American Guide Series: Massachusetts, 1937 • There is, in hockey, no idiotic propaganda that violence is only incidental to the game —Jeff Greenfield, Harper's, January 1972 • These projects were always incidental to our games, which dominated our days —Jim Strain, Sports Illustrated, 22 June 1981 • ... Gibraltar is a Crown Colony and habeas corpus is incidental thereto —Harold J. Laski, letter, 11 Feb. 1923 Very occasionally, incidental occurs with on: • One oligarchic critic emphasises the casual profits incidental on Athens' position as an imperial city — A. H. M. Jones, Past and Present, February 1952 |
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