喜樂美語
  1. 1aB2/ˌæksəˈdentl/意外的；偶然的

    Happening by chance, with nobody planning it or meaning it to happen. It is used most often about something unwanted, such as damage, but also about a lucky discovery or a meeting that nobody arranged.

    示範例句 · Example

    Both teams turning up in yellow shirts was completely accidental — nobody checked before the game.

    逐字兩隊都穿黃色球衣出現是完全意外的——比賽前沒有人確認過。

    accidental 就是 accident（意外）的形容詞，可以想成「沒有人打算讓它發生」——事情自己撞上來的，不是誰安排的。所以它可以指壞事（accidental damage 意外造成的損壞），也可以指好事或純粹的巧合（an accidental discovery 偶然的發現）；重點不在好壞，而在「不是故意的、不是計畫好的」。它跟 deliberate（故意的）、planned（計畫好的）正好相反。

    常見搭配

    • accidental damage

      意外造成的損壞

      harm to something that happens by accident, not on purpose

      The insurance covers accidental damage to your bike while you are away.

    • purely / completely accidental

      純屬巧合；完全是意外

      happening only by chance, with nothing planned at all

      The two songs sound alike, but the writers say it was purely accidental.

    • an accidental discovery

      偶然的發現

      something useful that you find when you are not looking for it

      Many accidental discoveries in science began with a mistake in the lab.

    • an accidental hero

      意外成為英雄的人

      someone who becomes a hero by chance, not by planning to

      Hana became an accidental hero when she found the lost dog on her way home.

    • any similarity is purely accidental

      如有雷同，純屬巧合

      used to say that a story is not about real people

      The film ends with a line saying any similarity to real people is purely accidental.

    用法接近

    accidentaccidentallyby accidentby mistakecoincidence

    意思相反

    deliberateintentionalplannedon purpose

core核心畫面

It happened, but nobody put it there. No plan, no intention behind it — the result came from chance. Most often used when the result is damage or harm nobody wanted, but it works just as well for a lucky find or a meeting nobody arranged.

可以想成事情確實發生了，但背後沒有人安排：沒有計畫、沒有那個意思，是碰巧湊成的。最常見的用法是描述沒人想要的結果——accidental damage（意外造成的損壞）、an accidental death（意外死亡）；但只要「沒人刻意安排」這一點成立，好事也可以用，像 an accidental discovery（無意間的發現）。關鍵不在結果好壞，而在有沒有那隻「有意」的手。

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同家族的字

用法接近

accidentaccidentallyby accidentby mistakecoincidence

意思相反

deliberateintentionalplannedon purpose

原始詞典資料10 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

accidentaladj/ˌæk.sɪˈdɛn.tl̩/

  • 1

    Pertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.

    • It would be absurd to say that Marxism was predestined to become the ideology of the self-glorifying Russian bureaucracy. Nevertheless, it contained essential features, as opposed to accidental or secondary ones, that made it adaptable to this purpose.
  • 2

    human-sciencesphilosophysciencesPertaining to accident and not essence; thus, inessential; incidental; secondary.

  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicAdjusted by one or two semitones, in temporary departure from the key signature.

  • 4

    Occurring sometimes, by chance; occasional.

  • 5

    Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; by accident, unintentional.

    • The discovery was purely accidental.
    • He was killed by an accidental gunshot.
  • 6

    geometrymathematicssciencesBeing a double point with two distinct tangent planes in 4-dimensional projective space.

accidentalnoun/ˌæk.sɪˈdɛn.tl̩/

  • 1

    A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.

    • He conceived it just that accidentals ... should sink with the substance of the accusation.
  • 2

    Those fortuitous effects produced by luminous rays falling on certain objects so that some parts stand forth in abnormal brightness and other parts are cast into a deep shadow.

  • 3

    entertainmentlifestylemusicA sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.

  • 4

    Part of a text that has a mainly structural purpose, such as spelling, punctuation, or capitalization.

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