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单词 coincidence
释义
coincidence
noun
uk
/kəʊˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/us
/koʊˈɪn.sɪ.dəns/

coincidencenoun(SAME TIME)

B2[C]
anoccasionwhen two or moresimilarthingshappenat the sametime,especiallyin a way that isunlikelyandsurprising:
同时发生；（尤指令人吃惊的）巧合，碰巧的事
Youchoseexactlythe samewallpaperas us -what acoincidence!你选的壁纸跟我们的一模一样——真巧！
Is it just a coincidence that thewifeof the man whoranthecompetitionwonfirstprize?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？
aseriesofstrange/amazingcoincidences一系列奇怪／令人惊讶的巧合
More examples
  • We hadn'tplannedto be in France at the sametimeas Ann and Charles - it was just ahappycoincidence.
  • Meeting you here in Rome is aremarkablecoincidence.
  • By someextraordinarycoincidence, Isatdownrightoppositeyourmotherin thetrain.
  • Do youthinkit was just a coincidence that shechoseher own granddaughter'spicturefor firstprize?
  • There were awholeseriesofspookycoincidences - forexamplewe bothmarriedmen with the samenameand on the sameday.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Events and occurrences
  • -athon
  • back story
  • be (all) part of life's rich tapestry/pageantidiom
  • benefit
  • binge
  • brush
  • car wash
  • date night
  • edition
  • epiphenomenon
  • episode
  • goings-on
  • occasion
  • occurrence
  • past
  • proceedings
  • reoccurrence
  • saga
  • spree
  • thing
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coincidencenoun(CHANCE)

B2[U]
chanceorluck:
偶然的机遇，运气
Justbycoincidence, Imetmyoldschoolmateagain 50yearslater.纯粹是碰巧了，我在50年后又遇到了我的老同学。
[+ that]Itwaspure/sheercoincidencethatIrememberedhisphonenumber.我记住他的电话号码纯属偶然。
By somestrangecoincidence, he waspassingthehousejust when ithappened.事情发生时他碰巧路过这所房子。
More examples
  • We hadn'tplannedto be in France at the sametimeas Ann and Charles - it was just ahappycoincidence.
  • Meeting you here in Rome is aremarkablecoincidence.
  • By someextraordinarycoincidence, Isatdownrightoppositeyourmotherin thetrain.
  • Do youthinkit was just a coincidence that shechoseher own granddaughter'spicturefor firstprize?
  • There were awholeseriesofspookycoincidences - forexamplewe bothmarriedmen with the samenameand on the sameday.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Chance and randomness
  • accident
  • aleatory
  • arbitrarily
  • arbitrariness
  • arbitrary
  • fluke
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • fortuitously
  • fortuitousness
  • luck
  • luck intosomething
  • more by accident than designidiom
  • more by luck than judgmentidiom
  • non-purposive
  • randomized
  • randomly
  • randomness
  • serendipitous
  • stumble intosomething
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(Definition ofcoincidencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

coincidence| American Dictionary

coincidence
noun[C/U]
us
/koʊˈɪn·sɪ·dəns,-səˌdens/
anoccasionwhen two or more thingshappenat the sametime,esp. in a way that isunexpectedorunlikely, or theunlikelyfactof such thingshappeningat the sametime:
[C]Wasourmeetinghere a coincidence?
[U]By coincidence, bothteamshappento becoachedby men.

coincidental

adjective[not gradable]us
/koʊˌɪn·sɪˈden·təl/
Resemblances betweentheirstoriesarepurelycoincidental.

coincidentally

adverb[not gradable]us
/koʊˌɪn·sɪˈden·təl·i/
Moshuthiseyesandswung, theballand thebatcoincidentallyarrivingat the sameplaceat the sametime.
(Definition ofcoincidencefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcoincidence

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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.
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Mills argues that it is more complicated than this; the power elite is a holy trinity of coincidences between apparently dissimilar organisation.
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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.
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Moreover, there are coincidences of methods in simple cases.
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However due to errands and coincidences this did not always happen.
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Maybe the announcer thought it was funny, but these things happen, the coincidences in life.
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Truly, life throws up coincidences that no writer of fiction would dare employ.
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If psychology as a science were possible under these circumstances, that would be due to a massive and miraculous set of coincidences.
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Astrophysicists have uncovered mathematical coincidences without which life could not have arisen.
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More broadly, there is no reason to expect that there are unexplained coincidences besetting an exclusivist theory.
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The coincidences described in the literature are intriguing.
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Such spectra are hard to accurately identify in interstellar gas because of the possibility of many chance coincidences.
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To avoid such coincidences, only lines of verse that are predicted to rhyme by their formal patterns have been considered.
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The spatial patterns of human cases and cattle findings were displayed simultaneously by combined dot and choropleth maps to visualize and uncover coincidences.
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Crosslinguistic coincidences in the acquisition of modality lend support to the notion of a cognitive pacesetting for some aspects of language development.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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Collocationswithcoincidence

coincidence

These are words often used in combination withcoincidence.

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curious coincidence
It is a curious coincidence that none of the three relevant authors spell out the motivation for their decisions in any detail.
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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 anextraordinarycoincidence.
From theCambridge English Corpus
happy coincidence
It could be ahappycoincidencethat these papers address that point from different angles.
From theCambridge English Corpus
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