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.
你可能經常在新聞中聽到人們用accident和incident來表示某種事件。也就導致我們非常容易混淆這兩個詞。但其實它們並不完全相同！Incident表示更一般的，而accident則更具體。
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.
Incident可以指任何大事或小事，好的或壞的，有意的或無意的。搶劫銀行，有趣或有爭議的情況，名人之間的爭吵等等，都可以被描述為incident。
例：
I have absolutely no recollection of the incident.
我對那件事一點兒也記不起來了。
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.
Accident則是由錯誤或偶然引起的一件壞事。Accident往往是無意的，它們通常會導致一些損害或傷害。車禍是accident的一個例子。如果工廠的一些設備發生故障，工人受傷，這也是一種accident。還有些非常小的accident的例子，比方說當你踩到別人的腳或把咖啡灑到別人身上。這些事故是你不想做，也並沒有打算做的。
例：
His reckless driving accounted for the accident.
他開車魯莽，引起了這場事故。
All accidents can ALSO be described as incidents but NOT all incidents are accidents.
所有的accident也可以被描述為incident，但不是所有的incident都是accident。
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 chance). It could also be described as an incident ( The incident occurred on Main Street at around 2:30 AM ).
如果一個喝醉酒的司機開車撞到一群人，那是一場accident(他不是故意這樣做的；這是由酒精和偶然性造成的)。它也可以被描述為一個incident(一個發生在大街上大約凌晨2:30的incident)。
If three people were arrested after fighting in a bar, that is an incident (but not an accident because the fight was not by chance; they intended to fight).
如果三個人在酒吧鬥毆後被捕，那就是incident(但不是accident，因為鬥毆並非偶然；他們是故意戰鬥的)。
總結：
incident的範圍較廣，包含accident
而accident則特指由於錯誤或偶然發生的事故 n