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- an event or occurrence事件, 事情：
several amusing incidents.
几件有趣的事情。
1.1
- a violent event, such as a fracas or assault暴力事件（如吵闹、攻击等）：
one person was stabbed in the incident.
有一人在暴力事件中被刺。
1.2
- a hostile clash between forces of rival countries（敌对国军队间的）冲突。
1.3
incident of
a case or instance of something happening（事件的）发生：there was not one incident of teasing from the 90 pupils.
90个学生里没有发生一起恶作剧。
1.4
- mass noun the occurrence of dangerous or exciting things危险事件; 令人激动的事情：
my period in Egypt wasn't without incident.
我在埃及期间并不是平安无事的。
1.5
- a distinct piece of action in a play or a poem（戏剧、诗歌的）插曲, 枝节。
2
- Law a privilege, burden, or right attaching to an office, estate, or other holding【律】（职务、财产等所有物的）附属特权, 附属负担, 附属权利。
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- predic.
incident to
liable to happen because of; resulting from因…易发生的; 由…产生的： the changes incident to economic development.
经济发展带来的改变。
1.1
- Law attaching to【律】附属的：
the costs properly incident to a suit for foreclosure or redemption.
取消或履行赎取权诉讼的理应有的附属花费。
2
- (especially of light or other radiation) falling on or striking something（尤指光等射线）投于的, 击中的：
when an ion beam is incident on a surface.
当离子束击中表面时。
2.1
- of or relating to incidence入射的：
the incident angle.
入射角。
词源
late Middle English: via Old French from Latin incident- 'falling upon， happening to'， from the verb incidere, from in- 'upon' + cadere 'to fall'.