Confusing English Words – accident / incident
بسیاری از کلمات وجود دارند که معنی یکسانی دارند ، اما در واقع تعاریف و کاربردهای مختلفی دارند.
شما می خواهید درست صحبت کنید و از ارتباط نادرست خودداری کنید ، اما در مورد معنی دقیق و کاربرد هر کلمه کاملا مطمئن نیستید.
بعضی از زبان آموزان حتی به دلیل تردیدهایشان از به کار بردن کلمات خودداری می کنند.
هدف ما در این سری از پست ها روشن کردن رایج ترین کلمات گیج کننده در انگلیسی است.
accident / incident
.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
,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
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
.All accidents can ALSO be described as incidents – but not all incidents are accidents
;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 by chance
.It could also be described as an incident (“The incident occurred on Main Street at around 2:30 AM”)
If some troublemaking teenagers throw rocks at a house and break its windows, that is an incident (an event) but not an accident (because they did it on purpose; they intended to do it)
