accidents是什么意思？

accidents

英['æksɪdənts] 美['æksɪdənts]

• n. 意外遭遇( accident的名词复数 )，事故，机遇，命运；

例句

• She has lived through several terrible accidents. 她曾经历过几次可怕的意外事故。
• He’s very angry and she’s very upset, so don’t say anything about cars or accidents. Remember, the less said, the better. 他很生气，而她又很难过，所以你别提车或者车祸的事。记住，少说为妙。
• Drivers who forget to light up at night often cause accidents. 晚上忘记开车灯的司机常常出车祸。
• Traffic accidents are alarmingly frequent of late. 近来交通事故频繁得吓人。
• Fatal accidents have decreased in frequency over recent years. 近年来死亡事故发生的频率已经下降。
• Automobile accidents are far too common. 汽车事故太常见了。
• A series of lucky accidents led the explorer to his discovery. 这位探险家的发现是由于一连串的侥幸。
• Carelessness in driving often results in disastrous accidents. 驾驶不慎常带来不幸的意外。
• The traffic accidents in the city decreased last year. 该城市去年交通事故减少了。
• Car accidents have caused many deaths. 车祸造成了许多人死亡。

英语四级真题

He added that he had warned Mclaughlin that three preventable accidents in one year could lead to his discharge,as indeed it should.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
Responding promptly to accidents and other emergencies is important, but it is their smallest job
出自-2012年6月阅读原文
There are 20 officers in the Campus Security Division Their job is to handle crime, accidents lost and found items ,and traffic problems on campus.
出自-2012年6月阅读原文

英语六级真题

The illness is dangerous, because it is involved in half of all automobile accidents.
出自-2013年6月听力原文
They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.
出自-2011年6月听力原文

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• N-COUNT
  交通事故；车祸
  An accident happens when a vehicle hits a person, an object, or another vehicle, causing injury or damage.
  例句
  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。
• N-COUNT
  （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.
  例句
  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。
• N-VAR
  意外；偶然
  If something happens by accident, it happens completely by chance.
  例句
  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。
• PHRASE
  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.
  例句
  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。
• PHRASE
  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.
  例句
  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。