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《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- After they had waited some time, straggling people who had heard of the accident began to come up; then the real help of implements began to arrive.
-- Apparently so long an interval ensued with the men at the windlass standing idle, that some women shrieked that another accident had happened!But the surgeon who held the watch, declared five minutes not to have elapsed yet, and sternly admonished them to keep silence.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- All the ingenious ideas of the Professor were realized; he had dictated it rightly to me; by a mere accident I had discovered what he so much desired.
-- By some accident he may make the discovery; in which case, we are both lost.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Pet had to translate this passage to Mr Meagles, who never by any accident acquired any knowledge whatever of the language of any country into which he travelled.
-- Because the Circumlocution Office was down upon any ill-advised public servant who was going to do it, or who appeared to be by any surprising accident in remote danger of doing it, with a minute, and a memorandum, and a letter of instructions that extinguished him.
-- He soon saw that it was a litter, hastily made of a shutter or some such thing; and a recumbent figure upon it, and the scraps of conversation in the crowd, and a muddy bundle carried by one man, and a muddy hat carried by another, informed him that an accident had occurred.
-- 'An accident going to the Hospital?'
-- Bar, with his little insinuating jury droop, and fingering his persuasive double eye-glass, hoped he might be excused if he mentioned to one of the greatest converters of the root of all evil into the root of all good, who had for a long time reflected a shining lustre on the annals even of our commercial country if he mentioned, disinterestedly, and as, what we lawyers called in our pedantic way, amicus curiae, a fact that had come by accident within his knowledge.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A SAD ACCIDENT On Friday last, we were startled by a violent shock in our basement, followed by cries of distress.
-- 'You won't show the soft side of your char-acter, and if a fellow gets a peep at it by accident and can't help showing that he likes it, you treat him as Mrs. Gum-midge did her sweetheart, throw cold water over him, and get so thorny no one dares touch or look at you.'
-- I promised I would, and he departed, but it seems as if I was doomed to see a good deal of him, for today as I passed his door on my way out, by accident I knocked against it with my umbrella.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet as of late the Sperm Whale fishery had been marked by various and not unfrequent instances of great ferocity, cunning, and malice in the monster attacked; therefore it was, that those who by accident ignorantly gave battle to Moby Dick; such hunters, perhaps, for the most part, were content to ascribe the peculiar terror he bred, more, as it were, to the perils of the Sperm Whale fishery at large, than to the individual cause.
-- See that amazing lower lip, pressed by accident against the vessel's side, so as firmly to embrace the jaw.
-- Now, the people of the Pequod had been baling some time in this way; several tubs had been filled with the fragrant sperm; when all at once a queer accident happened.
-- I know that this queer adventure of the Gay-Header's will be sure to seem incredible to some landsmen, though they themselves may have either seen or heard of some one's falling into a cistern ashore; an accident which not seldom happens, and with much less reason too than the Indian's, considering the exceeding slipperiness of the curb of the Sperm Whale's well.
-- Be it said, however, that the Sperm Whale is far less liable to this accident than any other species.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Occasionally, when there was some more than usually interesting inquest upon a parish child who had been overlooked in turning up a bedstead, or inadvertently scalded to death when there happened to be a washing--though the latter accident was very scarce, anything approaching to a washing being of rare occurrence in the farm--the jury would take it into their heads to ask troublesome questions, or the parishioners would rebelliously affix their signatures to a remonstrance.
-- Thoroughly overpowered with the notion of Mr. Chitling being the victim of the tender passion, Master Bates threw himself back in his chair with such violence, that he lost his balance, and pitched over upon the floor; where (the accident abating nothing of his merriment) he lay at full length until his laugh was over, when he resumed his former position, and began another laugh.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The possibility of his having endured such unkindness, was enough to interest all her tender feelings; and nothing re-mained therefore to be done, but to think well of them both, to defend the conduct of each, and throw into the account of accident or mistake whatever could not be otherwise ex-plained.
-- But these things happen so often!A young man, such as you describe Mr. Bingley, so easily falls in love with a pretty girl for a few weeks, and when accident separates them, so easily forgets her, that these sort of inconsistencies are very frequent.'
-- She ac-counted for it, however, by supposing that her last letter to her friend from Longbourn had by some accident been lost.
-- It convinced her that accident only could discover to Mr. Bingley her sis-ter's being in town.
在丹尼尔·笛福的《鲁滨逊漂流记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But the accident that followed, though it be a trifle, will be very diverting in its place.
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