1. by accident : 偶然；
1. by accident : 偶然；
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1. accident是什么意思
1. It was quite an accident.
這是一樁偶發(fā)的事件。
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2. John's had an accident: he's been knocked down by a car.
約翰出事了，他被一輛小汽車撞倒了。
3. The discovery was a happy accident.
這一發(fā)現(xiàn)出人意料，令人高興。
4. He died in an automobile accident years ago.
他數(shù)年前死于車禍。
1. 交通事故：大家都認(rèn)同在現(xiàn)代社會,遵循交通規(guī)則可以大大減 少交通事故(accident) 發(fā)生的概率. 接著紫微又拋出一個問題,假設(shè)我們有行人和司機(jī)兩類的人來決定交通規(guī)則應(yīng)該怎么定,會發(fā)生兩種相互沖突的情況,有時候?qū)π腥擞欣?有時候?qū)﹂_ 車的人有利,
1. 交通事故；車禍
An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
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e.g. She was involved in a serious car accident last week...
上星期她卷入了一場嚴(yán)重的車禍。
e.g. Six passengers were killed in the accident.
六名乘客在車禍中喪生。
2. （不幸的）意外遭遇，不測事件;事故
If someone has an accident, something unpleasant happens to them that was not intended, sometimes causing injury or death.
e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。
3. 意外；偶然
If something happens by accident, it happens completely by chance.
e.g. She discovered the problem by accident...
她碰巧發(fā)現(xiàn)了這個問題。
e.g. 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。
4. 可能發(fā)生意外的事物（或人）
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.
e.g. 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。
5. 并非偶然;事出有因
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.
e.g. 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，這并非偶然。