You may hear the words accident and incident to refer to events in the news. These words are easy to confuse, but they are not exactly the same! Incident is more general, and accident is more specific.
你可能经常在新闻中听到人们用accident和incident来表示某种事件。也就导致我们非常容易混淆这两个词。但其实它们并不完全相同！Incident表示更一般的，而accident则更具体。
Incident can refer to any event big or small, good or bad, intentional or unintentional. A bank robbery, a funny or controversial situation, an argument between celebrities, etc. all can be described as incidents.
Incident可以指任何大事或小事，好的或坏的，有意的或无意的。抢劫银行，有趣或有争议的情况，名人之间的争吵等等，都可以被描述为incident。
例：
I have absolutely no recollection of the incident.
我对那件事一点儿也记不起来了。
An accident is a bad event caused by error or by chance. Accidents are always unintentional, and they usually result in some damage or injury. A car crash is one example of an accident. If some equipment malfunctions in a factory and injures the workers, that is also an accident. Examples of very minor accidents are when you step on someone s foot or spill your coffee on someone else. You didn t want or plan to do it.
Accident则是由错误或偶然引起的一件坏事。Accident往往是无意的，它们通常会导致一些损害或伤害。车祸是accident的一个例子。如果工厂的一些设备发生故障，工人受伤，这也是一种accident。还有些非常小的accident的例子，比方说当你踩到别人的脚或把咖啡洒到别人身上。这些事故是你不想做，也并没有打算做的。
例：
His reckless driving accounted for the accident.
他开车鲁莽，引起了这场事故。
All accidents can ALSO be described as incidents but NOT all incidents are accidents.
所有的accident也可以被描述为incident，但不是所有的incident都是accident。
If a drunk driver runs his car into a group of people, that is an accident (he did not intend to do it; it was caused by alcohol and chance). It could also be described as an incident ( The incident occurred on Main Street at around 2:30 AM ).
如果一个喝醉酒的司机开车撞到一群人，那是一场accident(他不是故意这样做的；这是由酒精和偶然性造成的)。它也可以被描述为一个incident(一个发生在大街上大约凌晨2:30的incident)。
If three people were arrested after fighting in a bar, that is an incident (but not an accident because the fight was not by chance; they intended to fight).
如果三个人在酒吧斗殴后被捕，那就是incident(但不是accident，因为斗殴并非偶然；他们是故意战斗的)。
总结：
incident的范围较广，包含accident
而accident则特指由于错误或偶然发生的事故
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