accident

She was involved in a serious car accident last week.

她上个星期卷入了一场严重的车祸。

Safer cars means accident statistics would drop: some 94% of road accidents in the U.S. involve human error.

安全性能更好的汽车就意味着事故统计数据会下降：在美国，约94%的交通事故都与人为失误有关。

5,000 people die every year because of accidents in the home.

每年有5千人死于家庭意外事故。

The effect holds for all causes of death, whether illness, accident or self-harm.

这种效应适用于所有的死亡原因，无论是疾病、意外事故还是自残。

On top of the tragic loss of life, the accident in California will cast a long shadow over the future of space tourism, even before it has properly begun.

除了生命损失的悲剧之外，加利福尼亚的事故将会给太空旅游的未来蒙上一层阴影，这发生在太空旅游甚至还没有正式开始之前。

Was it an accident or did David do it on purpose?

这是个意外呢，还是戴维故意干的？

She discovered the problem by accident during a visit to a nearby school.

她在去附近一所学校参观时偶然发现了这个问题。

But certainly, it doesn't seem to be an accident that some of the cheapest daycare available is in the least regulated south.

但可以肯定的是，一些最便宜的日托所位于最缺乏监管的南方，这似乎并非偶然。

Some people become members of the House of Lords through hereditary right or accident of birth.

一些人因世袭或出生的造化而成为上议院议员。