accident是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 意外遭遇， 事故； 意外(因素)，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：
-- Consequently, another drawer, and two porters, and several maids and the landlady, were all loitering by accident at various points of the road between the Concord and the coffee-room, when a gentleman of sixty, formally dressed in a brown suit of clothes, pretty well worn, but very well kept, with large square cuffs and large flaps to the pockets, passed along on his way to his breakfast.
-- The accident had happened in getting it out of a cart; the cask had tumbled out with a run, the hoops had burst, and it lay on the stones just outside the door of the wine-shop, shattered like a walnut-shell.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, yes," she said, and she began telling him about everything from the beginning: her journey with Countess Vronskaya, her arrival, the accident at the station.
-- She saw now that from the place of Vronsky's accident an officer was running across the course towards the pavilion.
-- "The despair you were unable to conceal at the accident to one of the riders."
-- Only I hope you won't shoot yourself by accident any more," she said, with a questioning smile.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was reason to hope, then, that no accident would mark the journey through this difficult country.
-- If the wind held good, the distance might be traversed in five hours; if no accident happened the sledge might reach Omaha by one o'clock.
-- The road, then, was quite clear of obstacles, and Phileas Fogg had but two things to fear an accident to the sledge, and a change or calm in the wind.
-- Had an accident then happened to the sledge, the travellers, attacked by these beasts, would have been in the most terrible danger; but it held on its even course, soon gained on the wolves, and ere long left the howling band at a safe distance behind.
-- If, then for there were "ifs" still the sea did not become too boisterous, if the wind did not veer round to the east, if no accident happened to the boat or its machinery, the Henrietta might cross the three thousand miles from New York to Liverpool in the nine days, between the 12th and the 21st of December.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then one accident and one mistake made him famous for full twelve miles about.
-- "Why, the broth's as clear as when I seeded it!Now what the-- Think of this fool accident coming up just when I was going to start something new!"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- An accident on a staircase, spontaneous combustion of a shopkeeper from alcohol, a fire in Peski 芒聙娄 a fire in the Pe-tersburg quarter 芒聙娄 another fire in the Petersburg quarter 芒聙娄 and another fire in the Petersburg quarter芒聙娄.
-- cried Katerina Ivanovna, and she was rushing to the door to vent her wrath upon them, but in the doorway came face to face with Madame Lippevechsel who had only just heard of the accident and ran in to restore order.
-- But in the crowd he sud-denly jostled against Nikodim Fomitch, who had heard of the accident and had come to give instructions in person.
-- And it was quite an accident Lebeziatnikov's turning up.'
-- Those rumours and that accident led to one idea in my mind.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he made no allusion ofany kind to this property, he was supposed to have left it behindhim by accident when he went away; until Ham, running after himto restore it, came back with the information that it was intendedfor Peggotty.
-- And now alast word, dearest and best of friends!The cause of the late changein you, which I have seen with so much pain and sorrow, and havesometimes referred to my old apprehension- at other times tolingering suppositions nearer to the truth- has been made clear to-night; and by an accident I have also come to know, to-night, thefull measure of your noble trust in me, even un- der that mistake.
-- Having some foundation for believing, by this time, that natureand accident had made me an author, I pursued my vocation withconfidence.
-- I shouldhave tried to find out what nature and accident really had mademe, and to be that, and nothing else.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Did you ever hear of that? A water party; and by some accident she was falling overboard.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- You must excuse the accident please."
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