| 词汇 | an accident waiting to happen |
| 释义 | an accident waiting to happenan accident waiting to happen used about a situation in which an accident is likely to happen because no one is trying to prevent it 肯定会出的事故 The boats are being left to drift; it’s an accident waiting to happen. 任由这些船漂流，肯定会出事的。 Examples from the Corpus an accident waiting to happen• A student helicopter pilot wallowing around in a hover in a tight clearing is an accident waiting to happen.• Another way of putting it would be that the dollar is an accident waiting to happen.• Unless, of course, it was an accident waiting to happen.• People living near the site say it was an accident waiting to happen.• Mr Stewart said that there was an accident waiting to happen and he feared lives would be lost. → an accident waiting to happen at accident(3) |
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