| 词汇 | coincidence |
| 释义 | coincidence noun uk /kəʊˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/ us /koʊˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/ coincidencenoun (SAME TIME)B2[ C ] an occasion when two or more similar things happen at the same time, especially in a way that is unlikely and surprising: 同时发生；（尤指令人吃惊的）巧合，碰巧的事 what a coincidenceYou chose exactly the same wallpaper as us - what a coincidence!你选的壁纸跟我们的一模一样——真巧！ Is it just a coincidence that the wife of the man who ran the competition won first prize?赢得头等奖的人是竞赛组织者的老婆，这难道仅仅是巧合吗？ a series of strange/amazing coincidences一系列奇怪／令人惊讶的巧合 We hadn't planned to be in France at the same time as Ann and Charles - it was just a happy coincidence.我们从未打算与安和查尔斯同时到法国——那只是一个幸运的巧合。 Meeting you here in Rome is a remarkable coincidence.能在罗马这地方遇到你可真是惊人的巧合。 By some extraordinary coincidence, I sat down right opposite your mother in the train. Do you think it was just a coincidence that she chose her own granddaughter's picture for first prize? There were a whole series of spooky coincidences - for example we both married men with the same name and on the same day. Events and occurrences -athon backstory be (all) part of life's rich tapestry/pageantidiom benefit binge car wash curve edition epiphenomenon episode goings-on happening occurrence proceedings reoccurrence saga shoe spree synchronicity thing coincidencenoun (CHANCE)B2[ U ] chance or luck: 偶然的机遇，运气 by coincidenceJust by coincidence, I met my old schoolmate again 50 years later.纯粹是碰巧了，我在50年后又遇到了我的老同学。 [ + that ]It was sheer coincidence that I remembered his phone number. pure coincidenceBy pure coincidence, both books were published on the same day. sheer coincidenceIt's sheer coincidence that I walked along the same street and into the same bar as her. strange coincidenceBy some strange coincidence, he was passing the house just when it happened.事情发生时他碰巧路过这所房子。 We hadn't planned to be in France at the same time as Ann and Charles - it was just a happy coincidence.我们从未打算与安和查尔斯同时到法国——那只是一个幸运的巧合。 Meeting you here in Rome is a remarkable coincidence.能在罗马这地方遇到你可真是惊人的巧合。 By some extraordinary coincidence, I sat down right opposite your mother in the train. Do you think it was just a coincidence that she chose her own granddaughter's picture for first prize? There were a whole series of spooky coincidences - for example we both married men with the same name and on the same day. Chance and randomness accident accident of birth aleatory arbitrarily arbitrariness 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 coincidence | American Dictionarycoincidence noun[ C/U ] us/koʊˈɪn·sɪ·dəns, -səˌdens/ an occasion when two or more things happen at the same time, esp. in a way that is unexpected or unlikely, or the unlikely fact of such things happening at the same time: [ C ]Was our meeting here a coincidence? [ U ]By coincidence, both teams happen to be coached by men. coincidentaladjective[ not gradable ]us/koʊˌɪn·sɪˈden·təl/ Resemblances between their stories are purely coincidental. coincidentallyadverb[ not gradable ]us/koʊˌɪn·sɪˈden·təl·i/ Mo shut his eyes and swung, the ball and the bat coincidentally arriving at the same place at the same time. Examples of coincidencecoincidence Repeated spatial or temporal coincidences between top-down expectation signals and bottom-up input signals reinforce the relative weights of signal exchanges in a given neural circuit. Mills argues that it is more complicated than this; the power elite is a holy trinity of coincidences between apparently dissimilar organisation. The weak version simply asserts that the fact that we are here shows that the universe required all the coincidences necessary for us to exist. Moreover, there are coincidences of methods in simple cases. However due to errands and coincidences this did not always happen. Maybe the announcer thought it was funny, but these things happen, the coincidences in life. Truly, life throws up coincidences that no writer of fiction would dare employ. If psychology as a science were possible under these circumstances, that would be due to a massive and miraculous set of coincidences. Astrophysicists have uncovered mathematical coincidences without which life could not have arisen. More broadly, there is no reason to expect that there are unexplained coincidences besetting an exclusivist theory. The coincidences described in the literature are intriguing. Such spectra are hard to accurately identify in interstellar gas because of the possibility of many chance coincidences. To avoid such coincidences, only lines of verse that are predicted to rhyme by their formal patterns have been considered. The spatial patterns of human cases and cattle findings were displayed simultaneously by combined dot and choropleth maps to visualize and uncover coincidences. Crosslinguistic coincidences in the acquisition of modality lend support to the notion of a cognitive pacesetting for some aspects of language development. See all examples of coincidence 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. Collocations withcoincidencecoincidenceThese are words often used in combination with coincidence. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. curious coincidence It is a curious coincidence that none of the three relevant authors spell out the motivation for their decisions in any detail. extraordinary coincidence On the contrary, considering the possible permutations of neural connections, we should be amazed if there was any similarity and would put that down to an extraordinarycoincidence. happy coincidence It could be a happycoincidence that these papers address that point from different angles. 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. See all collocations with coincidence |
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