“事故”是“incident”還是“accident”？看了你就明白了！

你可能經(jīng)常在新聞中聽(tīng)到人們用accident和incident來(lái)表示某種事件。也就導(dǎo)致我們非常容易混淆這兩個(gè)詞。但其實(shí)它們并不完全相同!Incident表示更一般的，而accident則更具體。

Incident /'?ns?d(?)nt/

Incident can refer to any event big or small, good or bad, intentional or unintentional. A bank robbery, a funny or controversial situation, an argument between celebrities, etc. all can be described as incidents.

Incident可以指任何大事或小事，好的或壞的，有意的或無(wú)意的。搶劫銀行，有趣或有爭(zhēng)議的情況，名人之間的爭(zhēng)吵等等，都可以被描述為incident。

例：

I have absolutely no recollection of the incident.

我對(duì)那件事一點(diǎn)兒也記不起來(lái)了。

Accident /'æks?d?nt/

An accident is a bad event caused by error or by chance. Accidents are always unintentional, and they usually result in some damage or injury. A car crash is one example of an accident. If some equipment malfunctions in a factory and injures the workers, that is also an accident. Examples of very minor accidents are when you step on someone s foot or spill your coffee on someone else. You didn t want or plan to do it.

Accident則是由錯(cuò)誤或偶然引起的一件壞事。Accident往往是無(wú)意的，它們通常會(huì)導(dǎo)致一些損害或傷害。車(chē)禍?zhǔn)莂ccident的一個(gè)例子。如果工廠的一些設(shè)備發(fā)生故障，工人受傷，這也是一種accident。還有些非常小的accident的例子，比方說(shuō)當(dāng)你踩到別人的腳或把咖啡灑到別人身上。這些事故是你不想做，也并沒(méi)有打算做的。

例：

His reckless driving accounted for the accident.

他開(kāi)車(chē)魯莽，引起了這場(chǎng)事故。

辨析

All accidents can ALSO be described as incidents but NOT all incidents are accidents.

所有的accident也可以被描述為incident，但不是所有的incident都是accident。

If a drunk driver runs his car into a group of people, that is an accident (he did not intend to do it; it was caused by alcohol and chance). It could also be described as an incident ( The incident occurred on Main Street at around 2:30 AM ).

如果一個(gè)喝醉酒的司機(jī)開(kāi)車(chē)撞到一群人，那是一場(chǎng)accident(他不是故意這樣做的;這是由酒精和偶然性造成的)。它也可以被描述為一個(gè)incident(一個(gè)發(fā)生在大街上大約凌晨2:30的incident)。

If three people were arrested after fighting in a bar, that is an incident (but not an accident because the fight was not by chance; they intended to fight).

如果三個(gè)人在酒吧斗毆后被捕，那就是incident(但不是accident，因?yàn)槎窔⒎桥既?他們是故意戰(zhàn)斗的)。

總結(jié)：

incident的范圍較廣，包含accident

而accident則特指由于錯(cuò)誤或偶然發(fā)生的事故