| 单词 | accidental |
| 释义 | ac·ci·den·tal I. 1. < some of the colors were mineral, in the rock itself: but others were accidental due to water from the melting snow — T.E.Lawrence > < whether this paralogistic procedure is essential or accidental to his doctrine — T.H.Green > 2. a. b. < accidental collision > < accidental shooting > < accidental loss > 3. < being dark-haired is an accidental property of a man — Arthur Pap > 4. 5. of a bird < a common migrant, accidental in winter > Synonyms: < so plain that Thady's presence … was accidental, and that the attack could not have been premeditated — Anthony Trollope > In reference to qualities, accidental indicates absence of an essential or innate characteristic < their search for the typical and their avoidance of anything that might be considered accidental — John Dewey > fortuitous stresses chance and minimizes the idea of definite analyzable cause < I do not look upon public events either as fortuitous or absolutely derivable either from the wisdom or folly of man — William Cowper > adventitious stresses the extrinsic, additional, irrelevant, or nonessential < regular repetition of forms, uniformly spaced, the architect depending only upon adventitious ornamentation for variety — John Dewey > < in works of imagination and sentiment … meter is but adventitious to composition — William Wordsworth > contingent stresses unpredictability and uncertainty, especially in future events < countless contingent difficulties … many of which must necessarily arise, though the exact nature of them could not be anticipated — J.A.Froude > It also indicates dependence on something else for existence or occurrence < the resistance that we may meet with is contingent on the enemy's continued strength > incidental stresses a secondary or minor nature, regardless of manner of origin < war … the comprehensive business of the German … to the British … was an incidental adventure — H.G.Wells > casual stresses dependence on chance and lack of prearrangement or predictability < it was no casual reencounter. He had been enticed into the place — J.A.Froude > < the causal allusion, the chance reference — Henry Adams > casual and incidental may indicate occurrences actually planned and intended but presented as if by chance < the pupil must be aroused … his curiosity must be awakened by an incidental explanation, a casual remark — C.H.Grandgent > II. 1. logic 2. 3. a. b. 4. 5. |
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