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单词 incidental
释义
incidental
adjective
uk
/ˌɪn.sɪˈden.təl/us
/ˌɪn.sɪˈden.t̬əl/
lessimportantthan the thing something isconnectedwith orpartof:
次要的；附带的；伴随的
Try not to bedistractedby incidentaldetails.尽量不要为一些次要的枝节问题分心。
Thepointsyou make aretrue, but they're incidentaltothemainproblem.你的看法都正确，但它们对主要问题而言只是枝节性的。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Of little or less importance
  • be in/undersomeone'sshadowidiom
  • be neither here nor thereidiom
  • be no big dealidiom
  • biggie
  • derisory
  • lowly
  • meaninglessly
  • meaninglessness
  • mere
  • merely
  • minor
  • peripheral
  • petty
  • piffling
  • play second fiddleidiom
  • poxy
  • rinky-dink
  • secondarily
  • subordinate
  • valueless
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(Definition ofincidentalfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

incidental| American Dictionary

incidental
adjective
us
/ˌɪn·səˈden·təl/
happeningbychance, or inconnectionwith something ofgreaterimportance:
Hisinfluenceonyoungeremployeeswas incidental, notintentional.
Will I bereimbursedfor incidentalexpensesat theconference?
(Definition ofincidentalfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

incidental| Business English

incidental
adjective
uk
/ˌɪnsɪˈdentəl/us
happeningbychance, or inconnectionwith somethingelsethat is moreimportant:
it is incidental thatIt ispurelyincidentalthatpayrollsavingswererealizedafter theconsolidation, because moreemployeeschosetoquittheirjobsratherthanfollowthem to the newheadquarters.
It is not incidental that thefinancialindustryis one of the lastremainingconsumersofmainframecomputers.
incidental to sthWhether one is 25 or 75,ageis incidental to how well thejobis done.
ACCOUNTING
incidentalcostsareamountsofmoney, usuallysmall, that someone has tospendwhiletryingtoachievesomething:
incidentalcosts/expenses
incidental
noun[C]
uk
/ˌɪnsɪˈdentəl/us
something that isconnected, often bychance, to something moreimportant:
An incidental like asnowstormcanleavealargeholeinyourshippingschedule.
[usually plural]ACCOUNTING
smallamountsofmoneyspentwhiletryingtoachievesomething:
The company'sexpensespolicylimitswhatpeoplecanspendon incidentals.
(Definition ofincidentalfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofincidental

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From another perspective, however, pied-piping of p-features into and within the computation is far fromincidental.
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An irregular heart rate was noted as anincidentalfinding in the latter group.
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Performance of traumatized versus nontraumatized children on thisincidentalrecall task was moderated by the security of their mental representations of maternal caregivers.
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These results suggest thatincidentalfocus on form might be beneficial to learners, particularly if they incorporate the targeted linguistic items into their own production.
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Studies show that hearing stories can result in considerableincidentalvocabulary development, for both first and second language acquisition.
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Effects of prior guessing on intentional andincidentalpaired-associate learning.
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Incidentalvocabulary acquisition from oral and written dialogue journals.
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Moreover, the findings suggest that the notion ofincidentalvocabulary acquisition should be broadened.
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The reason is that their ability to judge and revise ungrammaticalities appearsincidental(performance is ad hoc) to task demands.
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The results showed no significant effects of textual elaboration on reading comprehension orincidentalvocabulary learning.
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As with the lists of suppliers, theincidentaldetails emerging from such microhistorical scrutiny bring as much enlightenment as the raw financial data.
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There are onlyincidentalexamples of phenomena belonging to level 3 in those areas.
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Anincidentalprobe word was presented aurally 2,000 msec after onset of the delay interval.
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Little attention is paid, however, to separating the possibility of adaptive host manipulation fromincidental(if fortuitous) side-effects of infection.
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Nevertheless, in the rest of his article he criticised measures which wereincidentalto the goal of reviving private enterprise or could endanger it.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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