phenomenon(EXISTING THING)
 without incident
with nothing unpleasant or unusual happening: 平安无事
Despite fears of violence, the demonstration passed off without incident.尽管担心发生暴力事件，示威活动还是平安无事地过去了。
I'm trying not to let my judgment be coloured by that one incident.我努力不让自己的判断因为那一事件而带上偏见。
The foregoing account was written 50 years after the incident.上述记载是在事件发生50年后写成的。
There is to be an official inquiry into the incident.官方将调查这一事件。
That incident planted doubts about him in my mind.这件事让我对他产生了怀疑。
The footballer is likely to receive a three-match suspension following an incident in yesterday's game.

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incident
adjective
 physics specializeduk /ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt/ us /ˈɪn.sɪ.dənt/
touching or hitting the surface of something: 入射的
an incident ray/wave入射光／波

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incident | American Dictionary

incident
noun[ C/U ]
us/ˈɪn·sə·dənt, -ˌdent/

incidentnoun[C/U] (EVENT)

an event, esp. one that is either unpleasant or unusual:
[ C ]Many shipping companies do not report incidents of piracy, for fear of raising their insurance rates.
[ U ]The demonstration took place without incident.
incident
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˈɪn·sə·dənt, -ˌdent/

incidentadjective[not gradable] (HITTING A SURFACE)

touching or hitting the surface of something
 incident rayphysics (alsoincident wave)
An incident ray or incident wave is a beam of light or other energy that hits a surface.

Examples of incident

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Procedures arise from operators' experience with similar incidents.
Moreover, the natural digestion of infected meat could prepare larvae for future incidents.
Relatively few incidents occurred while recapping (5.1 %) or after disposal (3.2 %).
The group of cases analysed here may therefore comprise approximately 35% to 45% of the total recorded incidents.
The government accused the opposition parties of causing these incidents themselves and their leaders were imprisoned.
Written procedures are then evaluated and amended if necessary to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.
Each filter has the ability to remove some of the potential incidents.
Seventy-nine per cent of incidents had one suspect and one victim and 15 % one suspect and two victims.
There was one suspect in all 17 incidents, one victim in 16 and two in one.
The paper includes a ser ies of seven data segments where incidents of cultural knowledge in the discourse produced are descr ibed.
The impact of economic performance on co-operation with the government is further tested with regressions on changes in strike incidents in the three countries.
As part of the intricate behaviour of bats, biting incidents are also fairly common, most possibly resulting in conventional viral transmission and infection.
A particular solution could be found in the solutions of different incidents.
The vast majority of incidents were settled with ' rough justice ' on the farm.
The story that emerges is a gradual accretion of incidents, each carefully considered, often developed through several versions.
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actual incident
We need to learn lessons from any such occasion, which can be done only when we know the full facts of the actualincident.
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