accidental是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 偶然的； 意外的； 无意中的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The resemblance was not lessened by the accidental circumstance, that the mature Jerry bit and spat out straw, while the twinkling eyes of the youthful Jerry were as restlessly watchful of him as of everything else in Fleet-street.
-- They had lounged away in a poverty-stricken, purposeless, accidental manner, quite natural and unimpeachable.
-- He had had it conveyed to him, in an accidental touch of his wife's elbow as she knitted and warbled, that he would do best to answer, but always with brevity.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- --May be reduced to the following: adultery of one of the married parties, and the detection in the fact of the guilty party by mutual agreement, and failing such agreement, accidental detection.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Twenty thousand pounds, which you would lose by a single accidental delay!"
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An accidental circumstance cemented the intimacy betweenSteerforth and me, in a manner that inspired me with great prideand satisfaction, though it sometimes led to inconvenience.
-- She would have dismissed the subject so, but I was too full of it toallow that, and insisted on telling her how it happened that I haddisgraced myself, and what a chain of accidental circumstanceshad had the theatre for its final link.
-- I replied, with all due deference to his experience (butwith more deference, I am afraid, to his being Dora's father), thatperhaps it was a little nonsensical that the Registry of that Court,containing the original wills of all persons leaving effects withinthe immense province of Canterbury, for three whole centuries,should be an accidental building, never designed for the purpose,leased by the registrars for their own private emolument, unsafe,not even ascertained to be fire-proof, choked with the importantdocuments it held, and positively, from the roof to the basement, amercenary speculation of the registrars, who took great fees fromthe public, and crammed the public's wills away anyhow andanywhere, having no other object than to get rid of them cheaply.
-- I am now in a condition to show- by- HEEP's-false books, and- HEEP's- real memoranda, beginning with thepartially destroyed pocket-book (which I was unable tocomprehend, at the time of its accidental discovery by Mrs.Micawber, on our taking possession of our present abode, in thelocker or bin devoted to the reception of the ashes calcined on ourdomestic hearth), that the weaknesses, the faults, the very virtues,the parental affections, and the sense of honour, of the unhappyMr. W. have been for years acted on by, and warped to the basepurposes of- HEEP.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The charming Augusta Hawkins, in addition to all the 220 Emmausual advantages of perfect beauty and merit, was in pos-session of an independent fortune, of so many thousands as would always be called ten; a point of some dignity, as well as some convenience: the story told well; he had not thrown himself away he had gained a woman of 10,000 l. or thereabouts; and he had gained her with such delightful rapidity the first hour of introduction had been so very soon followed by distinguishing notice; the history which he had to give Mrs. Cole of the rise and progress of the af-fair was so glorious the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, to the dinner at Mr. Green's, and the party at Mrs. Brown's smiles and blushes rising in importance with consciousness and agitation richly scattered the lady had been so easily impressed so sweetly disposed had in short, to use a most intelligible phrase, been so very ready to have him, that vanity and prudence were equally con-tented.
-- Another accidental meeting with the Martins was possible, and in her present state, would be dangerous.
-- It seemed at first an accidental division, but it never materially varied.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We all three went to it, behind the wire blind, and presently saw the client go by in an accidental manner, with a murderous-looking tall individual, in a short suit of white linen and a paper cap.
-- I found out within a few hours, and may mention at once, that Mrs. Pocket was the only daughter of a certain quite accidental deceased Knight, who had invented for himself a conviction that his deceased father would have been made a Baronet but for somebody's determined opposition arising out of entirely personal motives,--I forget whose, if I ever knew,--the Sovereign's, the Prime Minister's, the Lord Chancellor's, the Archbishop of Canterbury's, anybody's,--and had tacked himself on to the nobles of the earth in right of this quite supposititious fact.
-- Indeed, I was not only so changed in the course of nature, but so differently dressed and so differently circumstanced, that it was not at all likely he could have known me without accidental help.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was an astronomer, who had undertaken to place a sun-dial upon the great weathercock on the town-house, by adjusting the annual and diurnal motions of the earth and sun, so as to answer and coincide with all accidental turn-ings of the wind.
-- However, they have excellent medicines, composed of herbs, to cure accidental bruises and cuts in the pastern or frog of the foot, by sharp stones, as well as other maims and hurts in the several parts of the body.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Surely the goods of this world, it occurred in an accidental way to Bishop to remark, could scarcely be directed into happier channels than when they accumulated under the magic touch of the wise and sagacious, who, while they knew the just value of riches (Bishop tried here to look as if he were rather poor himself), were aware of their importance, judiciously governed and rightly distributed, to the welfare of our brethren at large.
-- 'With what will appear to you the egotism of a sick old woman, sir,' she then said, 'though really through your accidental allusion, I have been led away into the subject of myself and my infirmities.
-- He postponed looking at Mr Blandois again until this accidental inequality was removed by their having entered the late Mr Clennam's room.
-- It was the gentleman Clennam had seen on the night of his own accidental detention there, who had that impalpable grievance about the misappropriated Fund on which the Marshal was supposed to batten.
-- Bar was a sight wondrous to behold, and full of matter, when, jauntily waving his double eye-glass by its ribbon, and jauntily drooping to an Universe of Jurymen, he, in the most accidental manner ever seen, found himself at Mr Merdle's shoulder, and embraced that opportunity of mentioning a little point to him, on which he particularly wished to be guided by the light of his practical knowledge.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And when these things unite in a man of greatly superior natural force, with a globular brain and a ponderous heart; who has also by the stillness and seclusion of many long night-watches in the remotest waters, and beneath constellations never seen here at the north, been led to think untraditionally and independently; receiving all nature's sweet or savage impressions fresh from her own virgin voluntary and confiding breast, and thereby chiefly, but with some help from accidental advantages, to learn a bold and nervous lofty language that man makes one in a whole nation's census a mighty pageant creature, formed for noble tragedies.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Master Bates, apparently much delighted with his commission, took the cleft stick: and led Oliver into an adjacent kitchen, where there were two or three of the beds on which he had slept before; and here, with many uncontrollable bursts of laughter, he produced the identical old suit of clothes which Oliver had so much congratulated himself upon leaving off at Mr. Brownlow's; and the accidental display of which, to Fagin, by the Jew who purchased them, had been the very first clue received, of his whereabout.
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