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出来事

happening, occurrenceは出来事を表す一般語

happening: しばしばその異常さをいう場合に好まれる

occurence: 日常性や非日常性, 頻度の高低をいう場合に好まれる

accident: 事故など予期せず起こる, 通例不快な出来事をいい, 殺人や窃盗など人の意思によって起こることには用いない

event: 比較的重要な出来事

incident: eventに付随する比較的些細な出来事をいい, しばしば控えめ表現として戦争･暴動などに発展しうる事件にも用いる

1. an unfortunate incident that happens unexpectedly and unintentionally, typically resulting in damage or injury:

事故; 災難; 故障

e.g. he had an accident at the factory

e.g. if you are unable to work owing to accident or sickness

e.g. as modifier : an accident investigator.

a crash involving road or other vehicles, typically one that causes serious damage or injury:

交通事故

e.g. four people were killed in a car accident.

euphemistic used euphemistically to refer to an incidence of incontinence, typically by a child or an animal.

2. an event that happens by chance or that is without apparent or deliberate cause:

偶然; 思いがけない出来事

e.g. the pregnancy was an accident

e.g. it is no accident that my tale features a tragic romance.

the working of fortune; chance:

偶発［非本質］的性質; 偶然発生した物［生物］

e.g. my faith is an accident of birth, not a matter of principled commitment

e.g. he came to Harvard largely through accident.

3. Philosophy (in Aristotelian thought) a property of a thing which is not essential to its nature.

1. a potentially disastrous situation, typically caused by negligent or faulty procedures.

2. a person certain to cause trouble.

unintentionally; by chance:

e.g. she didn't get where is today by accident.

however careful you try to be, it is inevitable that some unfortunate or unforeseen events will occur:

e.g. problems like these should not occur, but accidents will happen.

late Middle English (in the general sense ‘an event’): via Old French from Latin accident- ‘happening’, from the verb accidere, from ad- ‘towards, to’ + cadere ‘to fall’.