Incidental
[ɪnsɪ'dent(ə)l] or ['ɪnsə'dɛntl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) an item that is incidental.
(adj.) not of prime or central importance; 'nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry'- Pubs.MLA .
(adj.) (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; 'incidental expenses'; 'the road will bring other incidental advantages'; 'extra duties incidental to the job'; 'labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion'; 'confusion incidental to a quick change' .
手打:卡尔--From WordNet
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Accidental, casual, fortuitous, contingent.[2]. Occasional, adventitious, extraneous, non-essential.
錄入:斯威尼
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Casual, occasional, appertinent, concomitant, concurrent, accidental,fortuitous
ANT:Systematic, regular, independent, disconnected, irrelative, essential,immanent, inherent, uniform, invariable
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例句/造句/用法:
- Moreover, opportunity for making mistakes is an incidental requirement. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Sir John had his share--perhaps rather a large share--of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Touching glasses together in drinking, preparatory to a confidential talk, has come to be nicknamed hob-nobbing because of the equipment incidental to that action years ago. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- He made all manner of gestures while he spoke, as if in incidental imitation of some few of the great diversity of signals that he had never seen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- A few words as to the domestic and personal side of Edison's life, to which many incidental references have already been made in these pages. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- It is an incidental result of differences in the reproductive systems of the parent-species. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon incidental to such a state. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- It gives an immediate heat in the kitchen for all culinary and domestic purposes, without the incidental objections of having to transport fuel and remove ashes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- He preferred waiting for the incidental disclosure which events must soon bring about. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- They are ever content to build their lives on any incidental position that offers itself; whilst men would fain make a globe to suit them. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Krook's last lodger died there, observes Mr. Guppy in an incidental way. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- The satire on existing governments is heightened by the simple and apparently incidental manner in which the last remark is introduced. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It is incidental, not primary. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
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