单词 | by accident |
释义 | by accident From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishby accidentby accidentCHANCE/BY CHANCEin a way that is not planned or intended OPP on purpose, deliberatelyquite by accident (=completely by accident). I met her The discovery was made almost by accident.whether by accident or design (=whether it was planned or not planned), made the plane do a sharp turn. The pilot, Grammar ✗ Don’t say: by an accident → accidentExamples from the Corpusby accident• Fleming discovered penicillin almost by accident.• He brought over some of my mail that was delivered to his house by accident.• Lombardi heard about their plan quite by accident.• The fire started by accident.• We ended up by accident on the wrong train and had to ride all the way to Montreal. |
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