首页英语词典accidentaccident的意思

accident

英 ['æksɪdənt] 美['æksədənt]

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近义词chance casualty mishap event

n. 事故；意外；[法] 意外事件；机遇

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词态变化

复数: accidents;

中文词源

accident 意外

前缀ac-同ad-. 词根cid, 1.落，见deciduous,落叶的。2.砍，见decide,决定。此处指突外掉落的，意外。

acclaim称誉

前缀ac-同ad-. 词根claim, 叫，同call, 叫。来自词根kele, 拟声词，呼叫。

英英释意

1. a mishap; especially one causing injury or death

2. anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause

英文词源

accident: accident: [14] Etymologically, an accident is simply ‘something which happens’ – ‘an event’. That was what the word originally meant in English, and it was only subsequently that the senses ‘something which happens by chance’ and ‘mishap’ developed. It comes from the Latin verb cadere ‘fall’ (also the source of such diverse English words as case, decadent, and deciduous).

The addition of the prefix ad- ‘to’ produced accidere, literally ‘fall to’, hence ‘happen to’. Its present participle was used as an adjective in the Latin phrase rēs accidēns ‘thing happening’, and accidēns soon took on the role of a noun on its own, passing (in its stem form accident-) into Old French and thence into English.
=> case, decadent, deciduous
accident (n.): late 14c., "an occurrence, incident, event," from Old French accident (12c.), from Latin accidentem (nominative accidens), present participle of accidere "happen, fall out, fall upon," from ad- "to" (see ad-) + cadere "fall" (see case (n.1)). Meaning grew from "something that happens, an event," to "something that happens by chance," then "mishap." Philosophical sense "non-essential characteristic of a thing" is late 14c. Meaning "unplanned child" is attested by 1932.

同义词辨析

accident, incident, event, occurrence, happening

这些名词均有"事故，事件"之意。

accident：强调偶然或意外发生的不幸事情。

incident：既可指小事件或附带事件，又可指政治上具有影响的事件或事变。

event：可指任何大小事件，但尤指历史上的重大事件。

occurrence和happening这两个词多指日常生活中发生的一般事件，有时也指偶然发生的事。

考试真题

It will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

College graduates, for example, are particularly interested in driverless cars compared with those who have less education: 59 percent of college graduates said they would like to use a driverless car compared with 38 percent of those with a high-school diploma or lessWhere a person lives matters, toIt will not necessarily reduce road accidents.

There are 20 officers in the Campus Security Division Their job is to handle crime, accidents lost and found items ,and traffic problems on campus.

Responding promptly to accidents and other emergencies is important, but it is their smallest job

The effect holds for all causes of death, whether illness, accident or self-harm.

On March 13, while on duty, Charles McLaughlin, a very careless driver employed by the company Lummis was involved in another accident.

The accident occurred in Riverside California

He added that he had warned Mclaughlin that three preventable accidents in one year could lead to his discharge,as indeed it should.

On the basis of the police report, the Lummis Accident Committee correctly determined that McLaughlin had been quite careless.

She was injured in a car accident two weeks ago and still in critical condition.

He had a narrow escape in a car accident

She got hurt in an accident yesterday.

The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.

It’s no accident that most gas station shave convenience stores attached.

On top of the tragic loss of life, the accident in California will cast a long shadow over the future of space tourism, even before it has properly begun.

The illness is dangerous, because it is involved in half of all automobile accidents.

The serious accident may leave Anna paralyzed.

They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.

In one study, researchers interview 955 people involved in traffic accidents, the majority of them reported having daydream just before the accident.

virgin Galactic had, prior to this week's accident, seemed closest to starting regular flights.

After realising an email accident, you are likely to feel awful.

But it doesn't happen by accident.

If he hadn't reacted quickly, there could have been a terrible accident.

If the new safety system had been put to use, the accident would never have happened.

In general, the kind of news which may be expected to give immediate reward are news of crime and corruption, accidents and disasters, sports, social events, and human interest.

It should not cause deadly traffic accidents.

It's about time they had to be registered and insured, so when they do hit a pedestrian or a vehicle, or cause an accident, at least they can be treated and there might be an opportunity to claim.

Keep it safe at all times, and then you will not have any unpleasant accident, which could ruin your whole weekend.

Road accidents can actually be avoided.

Unfortunately, it took a horrible accident to change her attitude.

We went 10-1 and I was named most valuable player, but I often had crazy dreams in which I was to blame for Miller's accident.

A string of accidents, including the partial collapse of a cooling tower in 207 and the discovery of an underground pipe system leakage, raised serious questions about both Vermont Yankee’s safety and Entergy’s management- especially after the company made misleading statements about the pipe.

Most archaeological sites have been located by means of careful searching, while many others have been discovered by accident.

词组搭配

by accident

偶然

The discovery was a happy accident.
这个发现是机缘巧合的。

accident and emergency

(Brit.)denoting a hospital department concerned with the provision of immediate treatment to people who are seriously injured in an accident or who are suddenly taken seriously ill

(英)急诊室

an accident waiting to happen

(informal)a potentially disastrous situation, typically caused by negligent or faulty procedures

(非正式)（尤指由于疏忽大意或程序错误而造成的）隐患

accidents will happen in the best regulated famili

(proverb)however careful you try to be, it is inevitable that some unfortunate or unforeseen events will occur

(谚)家规再严，事端难免

problems like these should not occur, but accidents will happen.
这类问题不应出现，但保不定会有意外的。

without accident

safely

安全地

he was able to stop the train without accident.
他能安全地停住火车。

实用场景例句

Their early arrival was just an accident.: 他们早到仅仅是偶然而已。

It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs in nursing.: 男人担任护理中大多数最重要的工作绝非偶然。

an accident of birth/fate/history (= describing facts and events that are due to chance or circumstances): 出生 / 命运 / 历史的偶然性

We met by accident at the airport.: 我们在机场不期而遇。

Helen got into acting purely by accident.: 海伦当演员完全出于偶然。

One in seven accidents is caused by sleepy drivers.: 每七次交通事故就有一次是驾车者困倦造成的。

The accident happened at 3 p.m.: 事故发生于下午3点钟。

to have an accident: 出事故

a serious/minor accident: 严重 / 轻微事故

a fatal accident (= in which sb is killed): 死亡事故

accidents in the home: 家中发生的意外事件

a climbing/riding accident: 登山 / 骑马不幸意外事件

Take out accident insurance before you go on your trip.: 去旅行前要办理好意外保险。

I didn't mean to break it─ it was an accident .: 我不是故意打碎它的——这是个意外。

a car/road/traffic accident: 车祸；公路事故；交通事故

He was killed in an accident .: 他死于一次车祸。

5,000 people die every year because of accidents in the home...: 每年有5,000人死于家中的意外事故。

The police say the killing of the young man was an accident.: 警方说这个年轻人被杀是一个意外。

She discovered the problem by accident...: 她碰巧发现了这个问题。

Almost like an accident of nature, this family has produced more talent than seems possible.: 就像是天缘巧合，这个家族不可思议地人才辈出。

A lot of the city's buildings are accidents waiting to happen.: 该城市中许多楼房都存在事故隐患。

It's no accident that the boom in police series on TV coincided with the decline of the Western.: 警匪剧在电视上盛行之时恰好是西部片衰退之际，这并非偶然。

She was involved in a serious car accident last week...: 上星期她卷入了一场严重的车祸。

Six passengers were killed in the accident.: 六名乘客在车祸中丧生。