the accident

• The accident might have been averted if proper procedures had been followed .
  如果采取了适当的措施，事故可能避免。
• The accident delayed a long stream of cars , buses and bicycles .
  这一交通事故阻碍了一条汽车、公共汽车和脚踏车的长流。
• They set to work very diligently to write out a history of the accident .
  他们立刻非常起劲地把这一事件的经过记录下来。
• The evening of the same day saw the empty wagon reach again the spot of the accident .
  当天傍晚，那辆空车又回到了出事的地点。
• He had never been but once at a tiger-hunt, when the accident in question occurred .
  其实他只猎过一次虎，就是出乱子的那一回。
• The police have taken out a summons against the drivers of both cars involved in the accident .
  警方已向肇事的双方驾驶人发出传票。
• Legal liability attaches if the accident should reasonably have been foreseen .
  当此意外事件理所当然应该预料到时，就要引起法律责任。
• It would be ignoble of me not to participate in this action because of the accident of this message .
  为了送信而不参加这次袭击，我就丢脸了。
• A farmer and his wife who were driving home along a nearby road saw the accident .
  一个农夫和他的妻子在邻近的一条路上驾车而行，目睹了这场惨祸。
• They stood silently together, a diversion was created by the accident of two birds .
  他们就这样默默地在一起站着，突如其来的两只鸟儿转移了他们的注意力。