incident
英 ['?ns?d(?)nt]
美['?ns?d?nt]
- n. 事件，事變；插曲
- adj. [光] 入射的；附帶的；易發生的，伴隨而來的
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詞態變化
復數:?incidents;
中文詞源
incident 偶發事件，摩擦，沖突
in-,進入，使，-cid,掉落，落下，詞源同accident,occasion.引申詞義偶發事件，摩擦，沖突等。
英文詞源
- incident
- incident: [15] An incident is literally that which ‘befalls’. In common with accident and occident, and a wide range of other English words, from cadaver to occasion, it comes ultimately from Latin cadere ‘fall’. This was combined with the prefix in- ‘on’ to produce incidere ‘fall on’, hence ‘befall, happen to’. Its present participial stem incident- passed into English either directly or via French.
The use of a word that literally means ‘fall’ to denote the concept of ‘happening’ is quite a common phenomenon. It occurs also in befall and chance, and operates in other languages than English; Welsh digwydd ‘happen’, for instance, is derived from cwyddo ‘fall’.
=> accident, cadence, case, occasion - incident (n.)
- early 15c., "something which occurs casually in connection with something else," from Middle French incident and directly from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere "happen, befall," from in- "on" + -cidere, comb. form of cadere "to fall" (see case (n.1)). Sense of "an occurrence viewed as a separate circumstance" is from mid-15c. Meaning "event that might trigger a crisis or political unrest" first attested 1913.
- incident (adj.)
- "conducive (to), contributing (to)," early 15c., from Middle French incident (adj.) or directly from Latin incidens, present participle of incidere (see incident (n.)).
雙語例句
- 1. A member of the security forces was killed in a sniping incident.
- 有一名安全部隊成員在一場狙擊戰中被打死。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. The violation of the graves is not the first such incident.
- 像這種破壞墓地的行為不是第一次出現了。
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- 3. His abhorrence of racism led him to write The Algiers Motel Incident.
- 對種族主義的憎恨促使他寫了《阿爾及爾汽車旅館事件》一書。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him.
- 雖然她目睹了這可恥的一幕，但是這對他來說無關緊要。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. The incident brings the total of people killed to fifteen.
- 這次事故使死亡總人數達到15人。
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