Accident

(noun.) anything that happens suddenly or by chance without an apparent cause; 'winning the lottery was a happy accident'; 'the pregnancy was a stroke of bad luck'; 'it was due to an accident or fortuity'.

(noun.) an unfortunate mishap; especially one causing damage or injury.

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• At last he was happily got down without any accident, and then he began to beat Mr. Guppy with a hoop-stick in quite a frantic manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A serious occurrence that might have resulted in accident drove him soon after from Canada, although the youth could hardly be held to blame for it. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• This accident caused some delay, but the other tubes were in the meantime progressing, and the completed bridge was opened for public traffic on the 21st of October, 1850. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• I laughed at the accident. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In the fewest words, the Sergeant showed them the evidence of the footmarks, and told them that a fatal accident must have happened to her. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I was afraid to put it off till next day (the Friday); being in doubt lest some accident might happen in the interval. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• It was voted low to sneer at Dobbin about this accident of birth. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• By accident the noose fell squarely about the running ape's neck, bringing him to a sudden and surprising halt. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• The ball seemed so thrown into my hands by accident! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• After they had waited some time, straggling people who had heard of the accident began to come up; then the real help of implements began to arrive. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• It is impossible that I should escape this proving through the accident of a message. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• What though I was the victim of an extraordinary accident? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• The present question for us to decide is, whether I am wrongly attaching a meaning to a mere accident? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Long since had he given up any hope of rescue, except through accident. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
• Save by accident, out-of-school experience is left in its crude and comparatively irreflective state. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I send it you now, because I apprehend some late accidents are likely to revive the contest between the two countries. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But as men, personalities, they were just accidents, sporadic little unimportant phenomena. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Why not drift on in a series of accidents-like a picaresque novel? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Merely to leave everything to nature was, after all, but to negate the very idea of education; it was to trust to the accidents of circumstance. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They are mere accidents so far as we are concerned. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Different accidents may sometimes keep them suspended a good deal above it, and sometimes force them down even somewhat below it. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• But my comfort was, that I observed such accidents very frequent, and little regarded. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• They say they do not have accidents on these French roads, and I think it must be true. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I should think you'll read the marriages, probably, miss, and the murders, and the accidents, and sich like? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The experiments are, therefore, sure to be watched with a great deal of interest, and it is probable that fewer accidents will occur from broken rails in the near future. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One great source of accidents in this respect has been due to the necessity of the brakemen entering between the cars while they are in motion to couple them by hand. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Many of the most remarkable inventions are attributable to accidents noted by observing and inventive minds. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• From everything--from money, from poverty, from ease and anxiety, from all the material accidents. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Mention has already been made of office and other elevators, in which compressed air is an important factor in operating the same and for preventing accidents. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• It gave good results but for the accidents from headers, to which it was especially liable. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.

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