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。
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The smaller human elements were kept out of sight; the pettinesses that enter so largely into all earthly living and doing were disguised by the accident of lover and loved-one not being on visiting terms; and there was hardly awakened a thought in Boldwood that sorry household realities appertained to her, or that she, like all others, had moments of commonplace, when to be least plainly seen was to be most prettily remembered.
-- She withdrew her own hand, but, whether by accident or design, he touched it.
-- It is to the credit of men that few attempt to settle the question by experiment, and it is for their happiness, perhaps, that accident has never settled it for them.
-- She requested Oak to get the churchwardens to turn the leadwork at the mouth of the gurgoyle that hung gaping down upon them, that by this means the stream might be directed sideways, and a repetition of the accident prevented.
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 13Letter 4To Mrs. Saville, England August 5th, 17 So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your posses-sion.
-- And thus for a time I was occupied by exploded systems, mingling, like an unadept, a thousand contradictory theories and flounder-ing desperately in a very slough of multifarious knowledge, guided by an ardent imagination and childish reason-36 Frankensteining, till an accident again changed the current of my ideas.
-- In this emigration I exceedingly lamented the loss of the fire which I had obtained through accident and knew not how to reproduce it.
-- Or (so my fond fancy imaged) some accident might meanwhile occur to destroy him and put an end to my slavery forever.
-- Indeed, as the period ap-proached, the threat appeared more as a delusion, not to be regarded as worthy to disturb my peace, while the happiness I hoped for in my marriage wore a greater appearance of certainty as the day fixed for its solemnization drew nearer and I heard it continually spoken of as an occurrence which no accident could possibly prevent.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Why should I marry a boring fool, simply because an accident prevented me from getting herhome before dark?
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "You see, blacksmith," said the sergeant, who had by this time picked out Joe with his eye, "we have had an accident with these, and I find the lock of one of 'em goes wrong, and the coupling don't act pretty.
-- "You are not afraid that I am in any fever, or that my head is much disordered by the accident of last night?"
-- Although I had sent Mr. Jaggers a brief account of the accident as soon as I had arrived in town, yet I had to give him all the details now; and the speciality of the occasion caused our talk to be less dry and hard, and less strictly regulated by the rules of evidence, than it had been before.
-- We should know at what time to expect them, according to where we were, and would hail the first; so that, if by any accident we were not taken abroad, we should have another chance.
-- They were both so overjoyed to see me, so proud to see me, so touched by my coming to them, so delighted that I should have come by accident to make their day complete!
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Perhaps some accident has befallen him,' said the king, and the next day he sent out two more hunts- men who were to search for him, but they too stayed away.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The empress, and young princes of the blood of both sexes, attended by many ladies, sat at some distance in their chairs; but upon the accident that happened to the emperor's horse, they alighted, and came near his person, which I am now going to describe.
-- It was my good fortune, that no ill accident happened in these entertainments; only once a fiery horse, that belonged to one of the captains, pawing with his hoof, struck a hole in my handkerchief, and his foot slipping, he overthrew his rider and himself; but I imme-diately relieved them both, and covering the hole with one hand, I set down the troop with the other, in the same man-ner as I took them up.
-- These false infor-mations, which I afterwards came to the knowledge of by an accident not proper to mention, made the treasurer show his lady for some time an ill countenance, and me a worse; and although he was at last undeceived and reconciled to her, yet I lost all credit with him, and found my interest de-cline very fast with the emperor himself, who was, indeed, too much governed by that favourite.
-- But a more dangerous accident happened to me in the same garden, when my little nurse, believing she had put me in a secure place (which I often entreated her to do, that I might enjoy my own thoughts,) and having left my box at home, to avoid the trouble of carrying it, went to another part of the garden with her governess and some ladies of her acquaintance.
-- While she was absent, and out of hearing, a small white spaniel that belonged to one of the chief gar-deners, having got by accident into the garden, happened to range near the place where I lay: the dog, following the scent, came directly up, and taking me in his mouth, ran straight to his master wagging his tail, and set me gently on the ground.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Bounderby, I esteem it a most fortunate accident that I find you alone here.
-- It was not by any wonderful accident that he found her, the time of day being that at which she was always alone, and the place being her favourite resort.
-- Her eyes by accident met Sissy's at the moment.
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