英文单字日进042 incident

^incident /ˈɪnsəd(ə)nt/]

n.事件；插曲，事变

There was an incident causing someone to fall down.

有个意外让这个人跌倒了。

Anyone who witnessed the incident should call the police immediately.

任何目睹这起事件的人应该立即报警。

助记:

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accident 意外事件；偶然因素

coincidence 巧合；同时发生

incidental adj./n.偶然发生的；偶然事件

incidentally adv.偶然；附帶地

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Now Sweden's eerie report echoes other recent and unexplained mass bird death incidents. Over the last week,flocks of dead birds have been found in two U.S.towns in Arkansas and in Louisiana.

瑞典这则令人发毛的报导呼应了近期其他原因不明的鸟羣大量死亡事件。过去一个星期以来，美国阿肯色州与路易斯安那州的两座小镇也发现了大批死鸟。

英英解析:

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.