accident是什么意思_accident怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause;"winning the lottery was a happy accident"
"the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck"
"it was due to an accident or fortuity"

中英词源

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。

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.

词态变化

复数 accidents;

权威造句

1. Captain Cook safely navigated his ship without accident for 100 voyages.: 库克船长驾驶的船安全出航100次无事故。

2. Through some unfortunate accident, the information reached me a day late.: 由于发生了不幸的意外，我知道消息的时候已经晚了一天。

3. The police say his death was an accident, officially at least.: 警方说他的死是个意外，起码官方消息如此。

4. The accident happened on a notorious black spot on the A43.: 事故发生在A43号公路上一个出了名的事故多发地段。

5. 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。

近反义词

bit of bad luck

casualty

collision

crash

misadventure

mischance

piece of misfortune

smash-up

wreck

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相似短语

by accident of 因...的机会由于...方面的运气

by accident 意外地，偶然地，碰巧

in an accident 在事故中，在不测事件中

by no accident 决非偶然

occupational accident 职业性意外事故

pure accident 纯粹的偶然

cerebral accident 脑意外

accident beyond control 不可抗力灾害

accident cause factor 事故征候

accident failure 事故失效

单词分析

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。

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