英文词源
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- accident
- accident: [14] Etymologically, an accident is simply ‘something which happens’ – ‘an event’. That was what the word originally meant in English, and it was only subsequently that the senses ‘something which happens by chance’ and ‘mishap’ developed. It comes from the Latin verb cadere ‘fall’ (also the source of such diverse English words as case, decadent, and deciduous).
The addition of the prefix ad- ‘to’ produced accidere, literally ‘fall to’, hence ‘happen to’. Its present participle was used as an adjective in the Latin phrase rēs accidēns ‘thing happening’, and accidēns soon took on the role of a noun on its own, passing (in its stem form accident-) into Old French and thence into English.
=> case, decadent, deciduous
中文词源
alsoran（落选者）：赛马比赛中未获名次的参赛马
英语单词alsoran来自赛马比赛的术语，是also ran的缩写。以前报纸在报道赛马比赛的结果时，在列出获得名次的前三名赛马名字后，往往会在also ran后面列出未获名次的其他赛马的名字。also ran的本意是“参加比赛的还有”，后来，人们将其缩写为一个单词，用来表示参加比赛但未获名次的参赛选手，往往用来比喻某种比赛、竞选的落选者。
alsoran：[ælsə'ræn]n.失败者，落选者，落选的马
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