accident
- n. 事故；意外；偶然；造化
accident 高中必修500 全国卷频次:32 教材出处:译林版必修B3U4
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n. accidents 10 事故，意外的事
高考真题原句选：
On hearing the news of the accident in the coal mine, she went pale.
Now, We’re always hearing about road accidents.
But it doesn’t happen by accident.
But it was quite by accident that I discovered the deep meaning of his words.
Road accidents, which had fallen for years, are now rising sharply. (2022全国II卷)
二、习惯用语
traffic accident 交通事故
by accident 偶然；意外地
car accident 车祸；交通事故
accident insurance 意外保险；事故保险
accident prevention 事故预防；安全措施
fire accident 火灾事故；失火
accident rate 意外伤害率
road accident 交通事故
fatal accident 死亡事故
nuclear accident 核事故
industrial accident 工伤事故；工业事故；劳动事故
have an accident vi. 出事故
cerebrovascular accident [医]脑血管意外（等于中风）；脑血管伤害
personal accident insurance 个人人身意外伤害保险
collision accident 碰撞事故；空中相撞事故
vehicle accident 交通事故
aviation accident 航空事故；飞机失事；飞行事故
transportation accident 交通事故
minor accident 轻微事故；小事故
unexpected accident 不能预料的事故
三、词义辨析
accident, incident, event
这组名词的共同意思是“事件”,其区别是：
1.accident是偶然发生的; incident是附属于偶发事件的; 而event则不一定是偶然的。
2.accident在没有happy, lucky这类词修饰时,多指不幸事件; 而incident和event则不一定是不幸的。
3.incident指日常小事或不太重要的事件; 而accident则多指涉及人命的大事,但不用于政治事件。试比较下面两句:
Being late for school is an incident, not an accident.
上学迟到是小事情,不是大事故。
Being hit by a car is an accident, not an incident.被汽车撞了是大事故,不是 小事情。
如果把accident和incident连用,这种差异就更明显了。例如:
Accidents are becoming incidents on this railway.这条铁路上事故已成家常便饭。
须注意的是incident有时也指大事,但多指在政治上、军事上、外交上可能导致争端或战争的事件。例如:
It was a frontier incident.这是一次边境事件。
4.event也可指日常小事,但主要指重要的事件(国家的、社会的、边界的等)。例如:This is one of the chief events of this year.这是本年度大事之一。
noun
1. [C] an unpleasant event, especially in a vehicle, that happens unexpectedly and causes injury or damage
(交通)事故；意外遭遇；不测事件:
a car / road / traffic accident
车祸；公路事故；交通事故
He was killed in an accident.
他死于一次车祸。
One in eight 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。
to have an accident
出事故
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/骑马不幸意外事件
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] something that happens unexpectedly and is not planned in advance
意外；偶然的事:
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
⇨ note at luck
IDIOMS
▪ 7 accidents will ‘happen
people say accidents will happen to tell sb who has had an accident, for example breaking sth, that it does not matter and they should not worry
出事是难免的
▪ by accident
in a way that is not planned or organized
偶然；意外地
OPP on purpose , deliberately :
We met by accident at the airport.
我们在机场不期而遇。
Helen got into acting purely by accident.
海伦当演员完全出于偶然。
⇨ more at chapter , wait v.
1 by accident in a way that is not planned or intended 偶然，意外地 OPP on purpose, deliberately
I met her quite by accident (=completely by accident).
我遇见她完全是偶然。
The discovery was made almost by accident.
这项发现几乎纯属意外。
The pilot, whether by accident or design (=whether it was planned or not planned), made the plane do a sharp turn.
不知是有意还是无意，那名飞行员让飞机来了个急转弯。
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2 [countable] an event in which a car, train, plane etc is damaged and often someone is hurt 交通事故；车祸；失事
Over 70,000 people are seriously injured every year in road accidents.
每年在道路事故中受重伤的有七万多人。
The accident happened at the junction of Forest Road and Pine Walk.
事故发生在森林路与松树路的交叉口。
a train accident
火车事故
3 [countable] a situation in which someone is injured or something is damaged without anyone intending them to be 事故，意外事件
Ken had an accident at work and had to go to hospital.
肯在工作中出了事故，不得不去医院。
I’m sorry about breaking the vase – it was an accident (=I did not intend to do it).
对不起，我把花瓶打碎了——这是个意外。
a climbing/skiing/hunting etc accident
He died in a climbing accident in the Himalayas.
他在攀登喜马拉雅山时遇难。
She was injured in a freak accident (=an unusual accident) when a wall suddenly collapsed.
她在一场墙壁突然倒塌的诡异事故中受了伤。
I had a slight accident with your coffee.
出了个小小的意外，我把你的咖啡弄洒了。
They lost their lives in a tragic accident.
他们在一次悲惨的事故中丧生。
4 [countable, uncountable] something that happens without anyone planning or intending it 意外事件
My third baby was an accident.
我的第三个孩子是意外怀上的。
It is no accident that men fill most of the top jobs in nursing, while women remain on the lower grades.
男性在护理行业中占据大多数重要职位，而女性仍处于较低级别，这绝非偶然。
an accident of birth/geography/history etc (=an event or situation caused by chance) 出生/地理/历史等的偶然
5. accidents (will) happen spoken used to tell someone who has broken something that they should not worry that it has happened 意外事情在所难免，不小心总是有的
6 an accident waiting to happen used about a situation in which an accident is likely to happen because no one is trying to prevent it 肯定会出的事故
The boats are being left to drift; it’s an accident waiting to happen.
任由这些船漂流，肯定会出事的。
1.N-COUNT 可数名词交通事故；车祸 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…
上星期她卷入了一场严重的车祸。
Six passengers were killed in the accident.
六名乘客在车祸中丧生。
2.N-COUNT 可数名词（不幸的）意外遭遇，不测事件;事故 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人死于家中的意外事故。
The police say the killing of the young man was an accident.
警方说这个年轻人被杀是一个意外。
3.N-VAR 可变名词意外；偶然 If something happens by accident, it happens completely by chance.
【搭配模式】：usu by N
She discovered the problem by accident…
她碰巧发现了这个问题。
Almost like an accident of nature, this family has produced more talent than seems possible.
就像是天缘巧合，这个家族不可思议地人才辈出。
4.PHRASE 短语可能发生意外的事物（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.
【搭配模式】：N inflects
A lot of the city’s buildings are accidents waiting to happen.
该城市中许多楼房都存在事故隐患。
5.PHRASE 短语并非偶然;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.
【搭配模式】：usu PHR that
It’s no accident that the boom in police series on TV coincided with the decline of the Western.
警匪剧在电视上盛行之时恰好是西部片衰退之际，这并非偶然。
plural accidents [count] 1
: a sudden event (such as a crash) that is not planned or intended and that causes damage or injury事故；意外遭遇
We got in a car accident. = We had a car accident.
我们遭遇了车祸。
a traffic accident
交通事故
a fatal accident
死亡事故
a motorcycle accident
摩托车事故
He was injured in an accident at work.
他工作时出意外受了伤。
The accident happened when her car slid on a patch of ice.
这场事故的起因是她的汽车在冰上打滑。
Investigators are still trying to determine the cause of the accident.
调查员们还在努力确定事故的起因。
“I’m sorry that I broke the bowl.” “That’s OK. It was just an accident.” = “That’s OK. Accidents will happen.”
“对不起，我把碗打碎了。”“没关系。这只是个意外。”
◊ An accident waiting to happen is a person or thing that is dangerous or unsafe.危险人物危险事件
My brother is the clumsiest person I know. He’s just an accident waiting to happen.
我弟弟简直笨透了。他就会惹祸。
2
: an event that is not planned or intended : an event that occurs by chance意外；偶发事件
Their meeting was an accident.
他们的碰面纯属偶然。
It is just an accident that they arrived when they did.
我们两拨人碰巧同时到了。
She says that her pregnancy was an accident.
她说自己的怀孕是个意外。
His wealth is a mere accident of birth. [=he is wealthy only because he was born into a wealthy family] 他之所以富有仅仅是因为他碰巧生在了有钱人家。
He says that no one is to blame for his illness. It was just an accident of nature. [=something that happened naturally] 他说自己的病谁也不能怪，只是凑巧赶上了。
It is no accident that the assistant he hired is so good-looking. [=he deliberately chose a good-looking person to be his assistant] 他雇了一个长得那么漂亮的助理绝不是偶然。
by accident
: in a way that is not planned or intended偶然；碰巧
They met by accident. [=by chance] 他们碰巧遇上了。
She says that she became pregnant by accident. [=unintentionally] 她说她意外怀孕了。
Scientists discovered the vaccine almost/quite/entirely by accident.
科学家们发现这种疫苗，几乎/实在/完全是个偶然。
Did it happen by accident [=accidentally] or by design?
这件事是意外还是事先设计好的？
