accident
n. 事故,意外; 偶然
An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
She was involved in a serious car accident last week...
上星期她捲入了一場嚴重的車禍。
Six passengers were killed in the accident.
六名乘客在車禍中喪生。
If someone has an accident, something unpleasant happens to them that was not intended, sometimes causing injury or death.
5,000 people die every year because of accidents in the home...
每年有5,000人死於家中的意外事故。
The police say the killing of the young man was an accident.
警方說這個年輕人被殺是一個意外。
If something happens by accident, it happens completely by chance.
She discovered the problem by accident...
她碰巧發現了這個問題。
Almost like an accident of nature, this family has produced more talent than seems possible.
就像是天緣巧合,這個家族不可思議地人才輩出。
If you describe something or someone as an accident waiting to happen, you mean that they are likely to be a cause of danger in the future, for example because they are in poor condition or behave in an unpredictable way.
A lot of the city's buildings are accidents waiting to happen.
該城市中許多樓房都存在事故隱患。
You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance.
It's no accident that the boom in police series on TV coincided with the decline of the Western.
警匪劇在電視上盛行之時恰好是西部片衰退之際,這並非偶然。
1. a mishap; especially one causing injury or death
2. anything that happens by chance without an apparent cause
accident, incident, event, occurrence, happening
這些名詞均有"事故,事件"之意。
by accident
偶然
accident and emergency
(英)急診室
an accident waiting to happen
(非正式)(尤指由於疏忽大意或程式錯誤而造成的)隱患
accidents will happen in the best regulated famili
(諺)家規再嚴,事端難免
without accident
安全地
People gathered at the scene of the accident.
人們聚集在事故現場.
After the accident he began to lead a vegetable life.
從那次事故後,他開始過植物人的生活.
He suffered internal injuries in an accident.
他在一次意外事故中受了內傷.
After the accident they tried to find out who the people were, but the bodies were too badly mangled to be recognized.
事故發生後,他們試圖辨認出遇難者, 但是由於屍體殘缺不全,難以認出.
The report on the accident exonerates the bus driver from any responsibility.
事故的報告認為公共汽車司機是沒有任何責任的.