单词 | incidentally |
释义 | incidentally From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishincidentallyin‧ci‧den‧tal‧ly /ˌɪnsəˈdentəli/ ●○○ AWL adverb1 [sentence adverb]AND/ALSO used to add more information to what you have just said, or to introduce a new subject that you have just thought of SYN by the way Incidentally, where were you born? The wine, incidentally, goes very well with a mature cheese.2 CHANCE/BY CHANCEin a way that was not planned, but as a result of something else Quite incidentally, I got some useful information at the party.Examples from the Corpusincidentally• He had a tremendous wang, incidentally.• It is, incidentally, a career in which women are making particular headway.• The moon landing was only incidentally about science.• Hincmar reveals more than Dhuoda about eating arrangements, and, incidentally, about the lay-out of the palace-complex.• The worm generally has a low pathogenicity, and the majority of infections are discovered only incidentally at postmortem examination.• One will be for a fast and reliable commuter line across Kent, which could incidentally carry cross-Channel traffic.• The improvement, incidentally, is amazing.• The criticism of Turgenev is only incidentally that he is stuck in the 1840s and not far-sighted enough.• The symphony, incidentally, will perform outdoors for its final concert. |
随便看 |
|
英语词典包含170365条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。