2N-COUNT (不幸的)意外遭遇,不测事件;事故 If someone has an accident, something unpleasant happens to them that was not intended, sometimes causing injury or death. (不幸的)意外遭遇,不测事件;事故
5,000 people die every year because of accidents in the home.
每年有5,000人死于家中的意外事故。
The police say the killing of the young man was an accident.
4PHRASE [NOUN inflects, verb-link PHRASE]可能发生意外的事物(或人) If you describe something or someone as an accident waiting to happen, you mean that they are likely to be a cause of danger in the future, for example because they are in poor condition or behave in an unpredictable way. 可能发生意外的事物(或人)
A lot of the city's buildings are accidents waiting to happen.
该城市中许多楼房都存在事故隐患。
5PHRASE [usually PHRASE that]并非偶然;事出有因 You begin a sentence with 'it's no accident' if you want to suggest that something was done deliberately or has a logical explanation, although it might give the impression of having happened by chance. 并非偶然;事出有因
It's no accident that the boom in police series on TV coincided with the decline of the Western.
警匪剧在电视上盛行之时恰好是西部片衰退之际,这并非偶然。
Quotations
Accidents will occur in the best-regulated familiesCharles DickensDavid Copperfield
now and then there is a person born who is so unlucky that he runs into accidents which started out to happen to somebody elseDon Marquisarchys life of mehitabel