| 词汇 | incidental |
| 释义 | incidental adjective uk /ˌɪn.sɪˈden.təl/ us /ˌɪn.sɪˈden.t̬əl/ less important than the thing something is connected with or part of: 次要的；附带的；伴随的 Try not to be distracted by incidental details.尽量不要为一些次要的枝节问题分心。 incidental toThe points you make are true, but they're incidental to the main problem.你的看法都正确，但它们对主要问题而言只是枝节性的。 law formal or specialized directly connected with something or happening as a result of it: incidental toA search can be justified if it is incidental to a lawful arrest. Every company has the implied power to borrow money for purposes which are incidental to its business. Of little or less importance be in/under someone's shadowidiom be neither here nor thereidiom big deal biggie derisory meaningless meaninglessly meaninglessness mere merely picture piddling piddly piffling play second fiddleidiom unserious unseriousness venial vestigial vestigially You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Outcomes and consequences incidental | American Dictionaryincidental adjective us/ˌɪn·səˈden·təl/ happening by chance, or in connection with something of greater importance: His influence on younger employees was incidental, not intentional. Will I be reimbursed for incidental expenses at the conference? incidental | Business Englishincidental adjective uk /ˌɪnsɪˈdentəl/us happening by chance, or in connection with something else that is more important: it is incidental thatIt is purely incidental that payroll savings were realized after the consolidation, because more employees chose to quit their jobs rather than follow them to the new headquarters. It is not incidental that the financial industry is one of the last remaining consumers of mainframe computers. incidental to sthWhether one is 25 or 75, age is incidental to how well the job is done. ACCOUNTING incidental costs are amounts of money, usually small, that someone has to spend while trying to achieve something: incidental costs/expenses incidental noun[ C ] uk /ˌɪnsɪˈdentəl/us something that is connected, often by chance, to something more important: An incidental like a snowstorm can leave a large hole in your shipping schedule. [ usually plural ] ACCOUNTING small amounts of money spent while trying to achieve something: The company's expenses policy limits what people can spend on incidentals. Examples of incidentalincidental From another perspective, however, pied-piping of p-features into and within the computation is far from incidental. An irregular heart rate was noted as an incidental finding in the latter group. Performance of traumatized versus nontraumatized children on this incidental recall task was moderated by the security of their mental representations of maternal caregivers. These results suggest that incidental focus on form might be beneficial to learners, particularly if they incorporate the targeted linguistic items into their own production. Studies show that hearing stories can result in considerable incidental vocabulary development, for both first and second language acquisition. Effects of prior guessing on intentional and incidental paired-associate learning. Incidental vocabulary acquisition from oral and written dialogue journals. Moreover, the findings suggest that the notion of incidental vocabulary acquisition should be broadened. The reason is that their ability to judge and revise ungrammaticalities appears incidental (performance is ad hoc) to task demands. The results showed no significant effects of textual elaboration on reading comprehension or incidental vocabulary learning. As with the lists of suppliers, the incidental details emerging from such microhistorical scrutiny bring as much enlightenment as the raw financial data. There are only incidental examples of phenomena belonging to level 3 in those areas. An incidental probe word was presented aurally 2,000 msec after onset of the delay interval. Little attention is paid, however, to separating the possibility of adaptive host manipulation from incidental (if fortuitous) side-effects of infection. Nevertheless, in the rest of his article he criticised measures which were incidental to the goal of reviving private enterprise or could endanger it. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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