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accident
- IPA[ˈaksɪd(ə)nt]
英式
- an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury；a crash involving road or other vehicles
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 four people were killed in a road accident 同義詞
- ▪ euphemistic an incidence of incontinence by a child or 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 Manchester has produced more than its fair share of professional comics 同義詞
- ▪ the working of fortune; chance members belong to the House of Lords through hereditary right or accident of birth
- 3. (in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.
