Incidental

(noun.) an item that is incidental.

(adj.) not of prime or central importance; 'nonessential to the integral meanings of poetry'- Pubs.MLA .

(adj.) (sometimes followed by `to') minor or casual or subordinate in significance or nature or occurring as a chance concomitant or consequence; 'incidental expenses'; 'the road will bring other incidental advantages'; 'extra duties incidental to the job'; 'labor problems incidental to a rapid expansion'; 'confusion incidental to a quick change' .

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• Moreover, opportunity for making mistakes is an incidental requirement. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Sir John had his share--perhaps rather a large share--of the more harmless and amiable of the weaknesses incidental to humanity. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Touching glasses together in drinking, preparatory to a confidential talk, has come to be nicknamed hob-nobbing because of the equipment incidental to that action years ago. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He made all manner of gestures while he spoke, as if in incidental imitation of some few of the great diversity of signals that he had never seen. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• A few words as to the domestic and personal side of Edison's life, to which many incidental references have already been made in these pages. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• It is an incidental result of differences in the reproductive systems of the parent-species. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• Nor is this, the most striking phenomenon incidental to such a state. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• It gives an immediate heat in the kitchen for all culinary and domestic purposes, without the incidental objections of having to transport fuel and remove ashes. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• It is of the highest importance in the art of detection to be able to recognize, out of a number of facts, which are incidental and which vital. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He preferred waiting for the incidental disclosure which events must soon bring about. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In the former case the education is incidental; it is natural and important, but it is not the express reason of the association. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They are ever content to build their lives on any incidental position that offers itself; whilst men would fain make a globe to suit them. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Krook's last lodger died there, observes Mr. Guppy in an incidental way. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• The satire on existing governments is heightened by the simple and apparently incidental manner in which the last remark is introduced. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• It is incidental, not primary. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.

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