Accidental
[æksɪ'dent(ə)l] or [,æksɪ'dɛntl]
解释:
(noun.) a musical notation that makes a note sharp or flat or natural although that is not part of the key signature.
(adj.) happening by chance or unexpectedly or unintentionally ; 'with an inadvertent gesture she swept the vase off the table'; 'accidental poisoning'; 'an accidental shooting' .
巴尔托迪编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Happening by chance, or unexpectedly; taking place not according to the usual course of things; casual; fortuitous; as, an accidental visit.
(a.) Nonessential; not necessary belonging; incidental; as, are accidental to a play.
(n.) A property which is not essential; a nonessential; anything happening accidentally.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A sharp, flat, or natural, occurring not at the commencement of a piece of music as the signature, but before a particular note.
尤金伲亚整理
同义词及近义词：
a. [1]. Casual, fortuitous, contingent, that happens by chance, not designed, not planned.[2]. Incidental, adventitious, non-essential.
贝拉编辑
例句:
- It is impossible that it can be accidental! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Though their beneficial effects, however, have been in this respect accidental, they have not upon that account been less real. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- If you think it is a case of accidental death, you will find a verdict accordingly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Mr. Bingley had not been of age two years, when he was tempted by an accidental recommendation to look at Netherfield House. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- They had lounged away in a poverty-stricken, purposeless, accidental manner, quite natural and unimpeachable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
- It was the accidental misfortune of Germany that her Emperors never remained German. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The common term under which, through the accidental use of language, two entirely different ideas were included was another source of confusion. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- But the objective man, in Nietzsche's opinion, distrusts his own personality and regards it as some thing to be set aside as accidental, and a detriment to calm judgment. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The suddenness of the effect can be accounted for only by a cause which can operate suddenly, the accidental variations of the seasons. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- For Fanny, somewhat more was related than the accidental agreeableness of the parties he had been in. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
- There was no answer, and they might have gone away, believing the house to be empty, if there had not been some accidental fall, as of a book, within. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- But I suppose it was an accidental thing. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- It is probable that they are occasionally transported by what may be called accidental means. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- I have lately become better acquainted with him through some accidental circumstances that have made me a visitor of his in private life. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- This, however, is not the effect of any contract, but of the accidental concurrence of their passions in the same object at that particular time. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- He and his hopes were accidentals, violations to her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
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