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accident
- IPA[ˈaksədnt]
美式
- an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury；a crash involving road or other vehicles, typically one that causes serious damage or injury
noun: accident, plural noun: accidents
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名詞
- 1. an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury he had an accident at the factory if you are unable to work owing to accident or sickness 同義詞
- ▪ a crash involving road or other vehicles, typically one that causes serious damage or injury four people were killed in a car accident 同義詞
- ▪ euphemistic used euphemistically to refer to an incidence of incontinence, typically by a child or an animal he had a little accident, but I washed his shorts out
- 2. an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause the pregnancy was an accident it is no accident that my tale features a tragic romance 同義詞
- ▪ the working of fortune; chance my faith is an accident of birth, not a matter of principled commitment he came to Harvard largely through accident
- 3. (in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.
