accident of birth

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fact, situation, or personal characteristic, which may be desirable or undesirable, resulting from the circumstances into which a person was born, and which is therefore entirely beyond their control. idiomatic
    — [H]e said to himself that he was a very good-looking man, and could have adorned a much higher sphere in life than that in which the accident of birth had placed him.

词形变化

accidents of birth plural
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