The Roman historian Pliny said that Phoenician sailors accidentally discovered how to make glass over three thousand years ago.

VOA: special.2009.09.16

It turns out they're relatively simple to find even -- when they've been deleted whether accidentally - or in some cases intentionally-- that too is part of the job undeleting things that people had deleted.

原来，这些图片的模式很容易找到,即使他们已经被删除,无论是因为意外还是有人故意为之-,要恢复已删除的东西,需要做这部分的工作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

Depending on what kind of chemistry you go in to, you might accidentally memorize parts of the table, which is fine, but what you really want to know how to do is know how to use the periodic table.

取决于你今后从事哪个方向的化学研究，你可能会不经意地记住周期表的某一部分，这就够了，但是要注意,你真正需要知道的是如何使用元素周期表。

麻省理工公开课 - 化学原理课程节选

But it does have a blunt tip, so that if it accidentally goes into my finger, it's much less likely to perforate."

VOA: special.2010.02.10

I mean, maybe if you accidentally like leaned into the steering wheel or something like that.

如果是你不小心靠着方向盘，导致活门开启,或是发生之类的情况。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In fifteen thirty-five, a ship carrying the Roman Catholic Bishop of Panama came upon the Galapagos accidentally.

VOA: special.2009.12.16

And so this is why in problem set 5 last year when I took photographs on campus with a compact flash card, just standard consumer media and I accidentally formatted that compact flash card, I only lost the first few kilobytes, the first few thousand bits on that compact flash card.

这也是去年的套题5中,我们在校园里面用配有，简易闪存卡的标准摄像机拍照片,我不小心格式化了这个简易闪存卡,其实我只是丢失的最开头的几千个字节的数据。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

People can accidentally take too much acetaminophen if they take several medicines that all contain it.

VOA: special.2009.07.21

Second reason we don't want over-qualified students in the class, it sounds a little nasty, but the second reason is, an over-qualified student, somebody who's, I don't know, programmed for Google for the last five years, is going to have an easy time in this course, but we don't want such a student accidentally intimidating the rest of you.

我们不希望高水平的学生来听课,还有一个原因，虽然听起来，有一点儿令人不快，但是第二个原因是，我们不希望，某位我不知道的高手，在为谷歌编写了五年的程序之后，很轻松地上这门课，从而使得周围同学,感到威胁。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

They study wounds and chemical tests to find out if the victim died accidentally or not.

VOA: special.2010.05.05

In problem set 5, last year I took a stroll around campus with one of the teaching fellows with his digital camera, we shot photographs of identifiable but non-obvious spots on campus and then like an idiot I always seem to erase my compact flashcard accidentally.

在习题集5中,去年我和另一位老师一起带着数码相机在校园里闲逛，我们在校园里没有目的地乱拍,像一个傻瓜一样,我一不小心清空了,我的便携闪存卡。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

They accidentally record a train wreck and, in the process, uncover a top-secret military project.

VOA: special.2011.06.20

The reason it printed that is I accidentally had my finger on the control key, which said print the last thing you had.

这是正确显示的，原因是刚才,我不小心按住ctrl键了，也就是这会显示你最后写的东西。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

One day,his sister,Clara, spilled oil on her dress and accidentally set herself on fire.

VOA: special.2010.06.13

People can accidentally kill themselves by taking too many pills or mixing medicines.

VOA: special.2010.05.04

He said it happened accidentally as he treated others.

VOA: special.2010.05.18

One of the workers accidentally cut Sport in two.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

"I do think that he gets genuinely angry and frustrated and unhappy when a village is bombed accidentally or whatever.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

Staff Sergeant Richard Green, an 82nd Airborne Division mechanic, found this out first-hand when he accidentally damaged his unit's first M-ATV.

VOA: standard.2010.08.01

The three - Shane Bauer, Sarah Shourd and Josh Fattal, had been hiking in the rugged Kurdish region of northern Iraq and their families say they strayed across the border accidentally.

VOA: standard.2009.11.09

These so-called natural mummies were preserved accidentally.

VOA: standard.2010.05.05