accident
美 [ˈæksɪdənt] 
英 [ˈæksɪd(ə)nt]
- n.意外；（交通）事故；意外遭遇；不测事件
- 网络意外事件；意外事故；偶然
词形变化
复数：accidents 反义词
英汉双解
1. | [c] （交通）事故；意外遭遇；不测事件an unpleasant event, especially in a vehicle, that happens unexpectedly and causes injury or damage |
| a car/road/traffic accident 车祸；公路事故；交通事故 |
| He was killed in an accident . 他死于车祸。 |
| One in seven accidents is caused by sleepy drivers. 每七次交通事故就有一次是驾车者困倦造成的。 |
| The accident happened at 3 p.m. 事故发生于下午 3 点钟。 |
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| a serious/minor accident 严重╱轻微事故 |
| a fatal accident(= in which sb is killed) 死亡事故 |
| accidents in the home 家中发生的意外事件 |
| a climbing/riding accident 登山╱骑马意外 |
| Take out accident insurance before you go on your trip. 你去旅行前要办理好意外保险。 |
| I didn't mean to break it─ it was an accident . 我不是故意打碎它的 — 这是个意外。 |
2. | [c][u] 意外；偶然的事something that happens unexpectedly and is not planned in advance |
| Their early arrival was just an accident. 他们早到仅仅是偶然而已。 |
| It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs in nursing. 男人担任护理中大多数最重要的工作绝非偶然。 |
| an accident of birth/fate/history(= describing facts and events that are due to chance or circumstances) 出生╱命运╱历史的偶然性 |
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例句
After lunch, Suresh got ready to return underground. He said that he had seen people die, "but I haven't had an accident yet. "
午餐之后，苏雷什准备重返地下。他说曾看到别人丧命，“但我还没有遇到过事故。”
I believe he must have had an accident, otherwise he would have arrived on time.
我相信他肯定遇到意外事件了，否则他会按时到的。
His mother died in a car accident when he was nine and he was raised by his father in difficult financial circumstances.
在九岁那年，他的母亲死于一场车祸，在经济困难的情况下他的父亲抚养他长大。
he had been far from the scene of accident , and did not even know there had been one.
事发当时他离现场很远，甚至根本就不知道发生了车祸。
Handling of the investigation must be open, transparent and inform the public the results, a responsible, genuine account of the accident.
调查处理工作要公开、透明，结果向社会公布，给人民群众一个真诚负责任的交代。
The authorities fear that everyone on board has died but are still trying to determine what caused the accident.
虽然担心机上的所有人员已无生还可能，但当局仍在试图找出事故的真正原因。
I don't know why he is late, he might have had an accident.
我不知道他为何迟到，可能遇上了事故。
After the accident coworkers put him in a chair and told him to raise his arms over his head to slow the bleeding.
出事后，他的工友把他放在一把椅子上，并告诉他将双臂举高到头上，以放慢出血的速度。
You may come to see this by an off-the-cuff comment, quite by accident.
您可能会看到这种由一个现成的，袖口很偶然评论。
The United goalkeeper Edwin van der Sar was travelling behind Ronaldo, at the wheel of his own Bentley, at the time of the accident.
车祸发生时，曼联门将范德萨正开着他自己的宾利车行驶在C罗的后面。
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
生产力绝不是偶然的，永远是经过对卓越的追求，有智慧的计划并全力以赴所得到的结果。
It is only by accident that you see me here. I ought to be in the office.
你只是偶然才见到我的。我应该在办公室。
His wife said, "During the days you were missing, I thought you had been killed in an accident, so I reported to the local authorities. "
妻子说，？你失踪了这些日子，我以为是遇难了呢，所以就向官府报告了。
We do not know why the accident happened. So far we have no names of any people on the trains. We will have more for you at 2: 30.
我们还不知道这场事故是怎么发生的，到目前为止我们没有乘坐地铁的人员名单。我们会在2：30做最新报道。
Qantas said the Australian aviation safety management, and both companies are starting to investigate the cause of the accident.
澳航称，澳航空安全管理部门以及公司正在就这两起事故原因展开调查。
He watched her a Niutou, she already does not belong to him, she had vowed never not him, this time, it is only a small accident.
他扭头看了她一眼，她早已不属于他，她曾发誓再也不见他，这次，只是个小小的意外吧。
It would seem to be a sort of accident, if it turned out that a situation would fit a thing that could already exist entirely on its own.
如果一个事物本身能够独立存在，那么后来的适合于它的状况看来就是一种偶然的事情。
must be a bad accident , " he thought and got out of his car" .
“一定是很严重的交通事故。”他想，于是从车里走了出来。
We do not know whether the helicopter is crashed by armed elements of fire, but the accident caused by foreign troops casualties.
我们不清楚直升机是否是因武装分子的火力坠毁，但此次事故造成外国士兵伤亡。
On April 30th the White House announced that new off-shore drilling would be suspended until the cause of the accident could be verified.
4月30日白宫宣称新的近海钻井作业将暂停，直到出事的原因核实出来为止。
The two policemen cleaved through the crowd and came to the scene of the accident.
这两名警察穿过人群来到发生事故的现场。
The brakes wouldn't act, so there was an accident.
煞车不起作用（失灵）了，所以发生了车祸。
My car was banged up in the accident.
我的汽车在车祸中被撞坏了。
I was very much shocked to hear of this melancholy accident, and said I thought I had better have some water.
我听到这段悲惨的故事，吓了一大跳，跟着说，那我想，我还是喝点水吧。
Traffic tailed back for 15 miles when the road was blocked by an accident.
公路因事故发生堵塞，受阻车辆往后延伸达15英里。
He was laid aside six months by an accident.
他因事故已停止工作六个月了。
The police at last nailed down the traffic accident.
最后，警方就那次交通事故做出了确切的说明。
By accident he touched the hot metal, and yanked his hand away with a cry of pain.
他偶然摸着了烫金属，疼的大叫一声抽回了手。
Both drivers were breathalysed at the scene of the accident.
两方司机均在事故现场接受了呼气酒精检测。
Police have asked witnesses of the accident to come forward.
警方呼吁事故的目击者出来提供线索。
Who knows when another "accident" involving millions of men will happen, an "accident" that will be the dreadful day of our doom?
谁知道什么时候另一个牵涉到千百万人的“偶然事件”会发生，这一“偶然事件”将会是一个给我们带来浩劫的可怕日子？
By an accident of history, we in the West have evolved a culture that separates man's spiritual life from his institutional life.
由于历史的一次偶然事件，在我们西方出现了一种把人的精神生活与机关团体生活分隔的文化。
Investigators are trying to pinpoint the cause of the accident.
调查人员正力图准确地查出事故的原因。
Yes, I know it was an accident, but that's beside the point.
是的，我知道那是个事故，可是这无关紧要。
It is no accident that the twentieth century should be the century of highly centralized governments and totalitarian dictatorships.
20世纪应当是高度集权的政府的世纪，是极权主义专政的世纪，这决非偶然的事情。
They could not say with confidence that he would be able to walk again after the accident.
他们不能肯定他经过那场事故后还能行走。
She fought her way back to health so quickly after the accident that she was soon back at school.
她在事故后努力迅速恢复了健康，所以很快返校上课了。
A car accident consigned him to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.
一次车祸使他落得在轮椅上度过余生。
That terrible traffic accident darkened her eyes.
那次可怕的交通事故使她双目失明了。
It is no accident that the more peace movements have multiplied the longer peace had been maintained.
和平运动越壮大，和平维持得越久，这可不是偶然的。
I can think of nothing but this dreadful accident, and the trouble is like to bring upon quite innocent persons.
我脑中尽想着那个可怕的灾祸，看样子，它也影响到一些完全没有关系的人了。
But when David turned 13, his grandfather died and his mother as killed in a car accident .
在13岁那年的时候，他的祖父去世了，母亲也在一次车祸中丧生。
A farmer and his wife who were driving home along a nearby road saw the accident.
一个农夫和他的妻子在邻近的一条路上驾车而行，目睹了这场惨祸。
Your account of the accident does not agree with hers.
你对事故的叙述与她的叙述不一致。
It is our client's contention that the fire was an accident.
我们当事人的看法是这场火灾属于意外。
There was an accident in the street and the policeman waved the cars aside.
街上出了车祸，警察做手势让汽车从旁通过。
We were discomforted over the news of the accident.
我们对发生事故的消息感到不安。
He averted his eyes from the scene of the accident.
他转移目光不再看事故现场。
After the accident, the car was bent up in all directions.
出车祸后，那辆车乱转了。
The accident could bring her out in a temper.
那事件会使她大动肝火。
While initially suspected to be a car bomb, subsequent reports may indicate that th is was the result of a motor vehicle accident.
最初怀疑是汽车炸弹，随后的报告可能显示，这是由于汽车事故。
Caribbean Airlines said it did not know the cause of the accident, which happened during good visibility and light rain.
加勒比海航空表示，他们不清楚事故发生的原因，当时能见度很好，只是下了小雨。
Perhaps you've been unlucky enough to have been attacked, or maybe you've seen something frightening, like a road accident.
也许是你非常倒霉地被袭击了，又或者你看到了什么可怕的事情，比如交通事故。怎样向朋友提起整件事呢？
There had never been a sighting of a megamouth shark (Megachasma pelagios) before the first specimen was caught, quite by accident, in 1976.
以前从来没有人亲眼目睹过巨嘴鲨，直到1976年人们才有幸捕获第一只这样的动物。
But this was no mere accident or casual foul-up in a live programme.
但这绝不仅是某次直播节目中的事故或偶然混乱。
I spent a good deal of time with a man who lived with his family on a railway embankment and had lost an arm and a leg in a train accident.
我在一名男子身上花了很长时间他和他的一家住在铁路路堤上在一次火车事故中失去了一只胳膊和一条腿。
Until a few decades ago, that hunting accident would have been a local misfortune, a curse played out in a few rural villages.
几十年前，这类捕猎时的偶发传染还只是一种地方性的不幸，在当地的一些农村里引发了祸患。
A few years later, she was involved in a car accident at the intersection near the hospital where she had the abortion.
几年后，就在这家医院前面，她去堕胎时所经过的十字路口，发生了车祸。
You are not an accident: Regardless of the circumstances of your birth, you were not the result of an accident.
你不是一个偶然：不必在意你出生的背景，你不是意外出现的。
In XiaLi pack up your luggage prepared to go back to the United States of America, unfortunate happens, her children a car accident.
就在夏丽收拾完行李准备回美国的时候，不幸发生了，她的孩子出了车祸。
The news program gave an up-to-date account of the nuclear accident.
那个新闻节目针对这次的核能意外做了最新的分析报导。
Although the accident had left me with torn shoulder tendons and a mangled shin, I knew it could've been a lot worse.
虽然那场车祸造成我肩膀的肌腱断裂、脚胫也严重受伤，但我知道后果原本可能更不堪设想。
If the Okinawa dispute was an isolated incident it might be taken as a bit of an accident, stemming as it did from a campaign promise.
如果冲绳岛纠纷是一起孤立事件，我们某种程度上或许会把它视为一个偶发事件，源自于一个竞选承诺——这也的确是实情。
The cause of the accident is not known, and an investigation has been opened to see what went wrong, authorities here said.
在这里的当局称：这次事故的起因仍然不明，同时事情的问题的调查工作已经开展了。
There had been a dreadful accident and every one in the train had been killed.
会发生一场可怕的事故，火车上的每个人都会丧生。
He was a poor boy indeed, because his father died of an accident, and his mother remarried and couldn't look after him.
他爸爸死了，死于车祸；妈妈又改了嫁，顾不了他，真可怜。
A spokesman James Gillies said that the trials have taken place in the accident, the collision of a section in need of repair.
发言人詹姆斯·吉利斯说，试验中发生了事故，对撞机的一段需要修理。
Malkin said the yacht's captain crash and the driver violated safety regulations may be the main cause of the accident.
马尔金说，失事游艇的艇长兼驾驶员违反安全规范可能是导致事故发生的主要原因。
His version of the accident should correspond with that of the other witnesses.
他对这件事情的说法应与其他证人的说法相一致。
But what's more remarkable (at least to me -- a lay person and an accident waiting to happen) is the relative ease with which he works.
但更神奇的是（至少对于我这样一个肯定会出错的外行来说），他可以相当轻松地完成工作。
People gathered at the scene of the accident.
人们聚集在事故现场。
He raked the newspapers for descriptions of the accident.
他在报纸中搜寻有关那次事件的描述。
He was confined to a wheelchair after the accident.
经过那场事故后他就离不开轮椅了。
If you ask someone who has broken his leg how and why it happened, you expect that he will tell you the history of the accident.
如果你问问一个腿部骨折的人，如何和为什么发生骨折，那你是希望他将事故的来历告诉你。
It was several hours before the road was cleared after the accident.
事故过去几小时后这条道路才被疏通。
He circumstantiated the accident.
他详细叙述了事故的经过。
Police are blaming the accident on dangerous driving.
警方把事故原因归咎于危险驾驶。
I could tell you a lot more about the accident.
我很想告诉你大量的有关这个事故的情况。
Traffic was dislocated by the accident.
车祸使交通陷入混乱。
The accident jammed the main road for three hours.
事故使那条主道堵了3个小时。
