incident与accident区别

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1、Ithinkthatthemostimportantdifferenceisthat'anaccident'issomethingwhichhappenspurelybychance,therewasnointentioninvolved,andwecan’treallyuse'incident'likethis.Ifyoudosomethingbyaccident,youdon'tmeantodoit,perhapsit'ssomethingyoudoordidwithoutthinking.

2、Post-itnotes,forexample,arelittlestickypiecesofpaperthatweusetowritenoteson.Andtheywerediscoveredbyaccidentwhenascientist,whowastryingtomakeaverystronggluecreatedaveryweakoneinstead.Hedidn'tmeantodiscoverPost-itnotes-hemadethembyaccident.Weoftenuse'a

3、ccident'todescribesomethingunpleasantorunfortunate?"Shehadanaccidentwhileshewasskiingandbrokeherleg."It'sespeciallycommontouseitwhenwearetalkingabouttrafficandvehiclecollisions..."Thecaraccidentcausedabigproblemonthemotorway."'Anincident'ismuchmorege

4、neral-wecanuseittotalkaboutalmostanythingthathappens,anysingleevent.Ifweweredescribingaparticulartimewhensomethingwentbadlywrong,wemighttalkabout"theincidentlastsummer"forexample.Itmightbesomethingcompletelyintentional-someonedeliberatelystartinganar

5、gument..."Wedon'ttalkaboutpoliticsathomesincetheincidentlastsummer.Liwaslookingforanargumentandbroughtupthesubjectoftherecentelections."Wecouldn'tcalltheargument'anaccident'becauseListarteditdeliberately.Weoftensay'incident'whenwedon'twanttomentionwh

6、atactuallyhappened,orsometimesifwewanttomakeaneventsoundlessimportant.Thepoliceuse'incident'totalkaboutpossiblecrimes,ifthey'renotyetsureifacrimehasbeencommitted.It'squitecommontohear:"Policearelookingintotheincident."Itmeansthattheyareinvestigatingt

7、oseeifsomeonehascommittedacrime.Sothebiggestdifferenceisthataccidentsareneverintentional,butincidentsmightbeAccidentandIncident:两词区别   AccidentandIncident:两词区别   YangLi:HelloandwelcometoQuestionandAnsweroftheWeek.我是杨莉，大家好。   Kate:Hello,I'mKate.   Yan

8、gLi:我们今天要回答的问题来自昆明的Zoe.我请菲菲来读一下她在电子邮件中提出的问题“看书时发现incident与accident意思差不多，但究竟它们在用法上有什么区别呢，两个可以互换吗？”   ---Zoe,KunmingYangLi:Zoewrotethatshefoundthewordsaccidentandincidentsimilarinmeaningandwouldliketoknowwhatthedifferencesare.CanyouhelpKate?   Kate:Sur