incident
incident 英 [ˈɪnsɪdənt] 美 [ ˈɪnsɪdənt]
n. 事件，严重事件
名词复数:incidents
- 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.
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- n. 事件，严重事件
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1. His bad behaviour was just an isolated incident.
他的不良行为只是个别事件。
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2. One particular incident sticks in my mind.
有一件事我总忘不了。
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3. There was a shooting incident near here last night.
昨夜这附近发生了枪击事件。
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4. The demonstration passed off without incident.
这次示威和平地结束了。
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5. a border incident, a diplomatic incident
边境╱外交冲突
- incident (adj.) late 15c., "likely to happen," from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere "to happen, befall" (see incident (n.)). From 1620s as "occurring as a subordinate;" 1660s in literal sense "falling or striking upon."
- incident (n.) early 15c., "something which occurs casually in connection with something else," from Old French incident (13c.), and directly from Latin incidentem (nominative incidens), present participle of incidere "to fall in, fall, find the way; light upon, fall in with; fall upon, occur; happen, befall," from in- "on" (from PIE root *en "in") + -cidere, combining form of cadere "to fall" (from PIE root *kad- "to fall"). Broader sense of "an occurrence viewed as a separate circumstance" is from mid-15c. Euphemistic meaning "event that might trigger a crisis or political unrest" first attested 1913.
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