喜樂美語
  1. 1rB2/ˌæksɪˈdentəli/不小心地／意外地

    In a way that was not planned — you did it by mistake, not on purpose.

    示範例句 · Example

    I accidentally knocked my mum's cup off the table.

    逐字我不小心把我媽媽的杯子從桌上撞掉了。

    「accidentally」放在動詞前面，告訴聽的人「這個動作不是故意的」。可以想成事情自己冒出來、不在你的計畫裡，跟 on purpose（故意）剛好相反。想強調「本來要做A、卻不小心做成B」時，英文更常說 by mistake。

    常見搭配

    • accidentally break something

      不小心弄壞東西

      to break something without meaning to

      I accidentally broke the window with my ball.

    • accidentally delete something

      不小心刪掉某個檔案

      to remove a file etc by mistake

      She accidentally deleted the photos from her phone.

    • accidentally leave something behind

      不小心把東西忘在某處

      to forget something somewhere without meaning to

      He accidentally left his umbrella on the bus.

    意思相近

    by accidentunintentionallyby mistakeinadvertently

    意思相反

    on purposedeliberatelyintentionally

core核心畫面

You can picture 'accidentally' as the way something happens when nobody meant it to — your elbow knocks the glass, it falls, and you never planned any of it. It marks an action as , by chance or by mistake, the opposite of 'on purpose'.

可以把 accidentally 想成「沒人打算這樣、事情卻發生了」的那種方式——手肘一撞，杯子倒了，整件事你根本沒計畫過。它替一個動作貼上「不是故意、是碰巧或失手」的標籤，正好和「故意」相反。

同家族的字

意思相近

by accidentunintentionallyby mistakeinadvertently

意思相反

on purposedeliberatelyintentionally

原始詞典資料2 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。

accidentallyadv/ˌæk.sɪˈdɛnt(ə)li/

  • 1

    In an accidental manner; by chance, unexpectedly.

    • He discovered penicillin largely accidentally.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:accidentally.
  • 2

    Unintentionally.

    • He accidentally exposed the bacteria to mold spores.
    • As I arrived at the foot of the hill I overtook two ladies, whom I passed. As I did so, I brushed one of them accidently on the arm.

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