单词
incident
英 ['?ns?d(?)nt]
美['?ns?d?nt]
基本信息
- n. 事件，事变；插曲
- adj. [光] 入射的；附带的；易发生的，伴随而来的
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词态变化
复数:?incidents;
中文词源
incident 偶发事件，摩擦，冲突
in-,进入，使，-cid,掉落，落下，词源同accident,occasion.引申词义偶发事件，摩擦，冲突等。
英文词源
- 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.)).
双语例句
- 1. A member of the security forces was killed in a sniping incident.
- 有一名安全部队成员在一场狙击战中被打死。
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- 2. The violation of the graves is not the first such incident.
- 像这种破坏墓地的行为不是第一次出现了。
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- 3. His abhorrence of racism led him to write The Algiers Motel Incident.
- 对种族主义的憎恨促使他写了《阿尔及尔汽车旅馆事件》一书。
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- 4. The idea that she witnessed this shameful incident meant nothing to him.
- 虽然她目睹了这可耻的一幕，但是这对他来说无关紧要。
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- 5. The incident brings the total of people killed to fifteen.
- 这次事故使死亡总人数达到15人。
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