| 单词 | incident |
| 释义 | incident (once / 99 pages) 1n 2adj 3adj An incident refers to a particular happening, sometimes criminal but always noteworthy. If there was a food fight in the cafeteria, an e-mail might be sent to the parents of all students telling of the incident at school. The word incident is quite vague. It can refer to a humorous occurrence or a violent one, something that disturbed one's routine or something unusual that happened. If a child screams in a library, it's not that unusual, but if an adult does, that's an incident! As an adjective, incident is used in the field of physics to describe particles or radiation that fall on a surface. The incident light showed how dirty the windows were. WORD FAMILYincident: incidence, incidental, incidently, incidents+/incidence: incidences/incidental: incidentally, incidentals USAGE EXAMPLES“We’ve experienced only a small number of minor incidents, in numbers less than typical,” Boasberg said in response to questions from The Washington Post. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) It was the sixth such incident recorded of this dangerous pest in the last six weeks at Port of Savannah. Washington Times(Jan 03, 2017) Police say the nature of what happened is unclear and the incident remains under investigation. Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) 1 1n a single distinct event Hypo|Hyper cause celebre an incident that attracts great public attention contagion, infection, transmissionan incident in which an infectious disease is transmitted scenean incident (real or imaginary) sideshowa subordinate incident of little importance relative to the main event happening, natural event, occurrence, occurrent an event that happens 2n a public disturbance 2the police investigated an incident at the bus station Hyper commotion, disruption, disturbance, flutter, hoo-ha, hoo-hah, hurly burly, kerfuffle, to-do a disorderly outburst or tumult adj (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence 3Syn|Ant incidental omissible capable of being left out parenthetic, parentheticalqualifying or explaining; placed or as if placed in parentheses peripheralrelated to the key issue but not of central importance secondarydepending on or incidental to what is original or primary basic pertaining to or constituting a base or basis basal, baseserving as or forming a base elemental, elementary, primaryof or being the essential or basic part fundamental, rudimentary, underlyingbeing or involving basic facts or principles grassrootsfundamental radicalarising from or going to the root or source adj falling or striking of light rays on something incident light |
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