English Dictionary

accident of birth

名詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) 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.

日本語の意味

生まれによって決まる、本人の意志では変えられない性質や状況 / 出自や生まれた環境によって形成される、望ましい場合も望ましくない場合もある特徴や状態

Society should not judge someone's worth based on an accident of birth.

社会は、生まれつきの境遇を理由に人の価値を判断すべきではない。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) 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.

[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.

accidents of birth （ plural ）