词汇 | accident-of-birth |
释义 | accident of birth collocation If someone's position or situation is an accident of birth, it is the result of where they were born or who their parents were. : I live here by choice rather than accident of birth. He owes his love of Africa to an accident of birth. See accident birth They have done nothing to deserve their money, but merely received it by an accident of birth. Their faith comes from conscious choice rather than accidents of birth. They hold these positions by the mere accident of birth. Chance and randomness accident aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness arbitrary crapshoot even money fluke fluky fortuitous luck luck into something more by accident than designidiom more by luck than judgmentidiom non-purposive randomness serendipitous serendipitously sortition stumble into something |
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