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Ithinkthatthemostimportantdifferenceisthat'anaccident'issomethingwhichhappenspurelybychance,therewasnointentioninvolved,andwecan’treallyuse'incident'likethis.Ifyoudosomethingbyaccident,youdon'tmeantodoit,perhapsit'ssomethingyoudoordidwithoutthinking.Post-itnotes,forexample,arelittlestickypiecesofpaperthatweusetowritenoteson.Andtheywerediscoveredbyaccidentwhenascientist,whowastryingtomakeaverystronggluecreatedaveryweakoneinstead.Hedidn'tmeantodiscoverPost-itnotes-hemadethembyaccident.Weoftenuse'accident'todescribesomethingunpleasantorunfortunate?"Shehadanaccidentwhileshewasskiingandbrokeherleg."It'sespeciallycommontouseitwhenwearetalkingabouttrafficandvehiclecollisions..."Thecaraccidentcausedabigproblemonthemotorway."'Anincident'ismuchmoregeneral-wecanuseittotalkaboutalmostanythingthathappens,anysingleevent.Ifweweredescribingaparticulartimewhensomethingwentbadlywrong,wemighttalkabout"theincidentlastsummer"forexample.Itmightbesomethingcompletelyintentional-someonedeliberatelystartinganargument..."Wedon'ttalkaboutpoliticsathomesincetheincidentlastsummer.Liwaslookingforanargumentandbroughtupthesubjectoftherecentelections."Wecouldn'tcalltheargument'anaccident'becauseListarteditdeliberately.Weoftensay'incident'whenwedon'twanttomentionwhatactuallyhappened,orsometimesifwewanttomakeaneventsoundlessimportant.Thepoliceuse'incident'totalkaboutpossiblecrimes,ifthey'renotyetsureifacrimehasbeencommitted.It'squitecommontohear:"Policearelookingintotheincident."Itmeansthattheyareinvestigatingtoseeifsomeonehascommittedacrime.Sothebiggestdifferenceisthataccidentsareneverintentional,butincidentsmightbeAccidentandIncident:两词区别AccidentandIncident:两词区别YangLi:HelloandwelcometoQuestionandAnsweroftheWeek.我是杨莉,大家好。Kate:Hello,I'mKate.YangLi:我们今天要回答的问题来自昆明的Zoe.我请菲菲来读一下她在电子邮件中提出的问题“看书时发现incident与accident意思差不多,但究竟它们在用法上有什么区别呢,两个可以互换吗?”---Zoe,Kunming