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What do we call it ?
When two people collide on the head , what do we call it? Head-on collision?
These are the examples.Can you check whether they are correct?
1) They accidentally hit their heads and cried loudly, "Ouchh!"
2) At that very moment, she remembered the head- on collision with him. "Could it be?", she uttered vaguely.
2019年4月6日 14:25
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A head-on collision would be when two cars crash while driving directly toward one another. It wouldn't generally be used for people bumping into one another. In your first example, I would say "they accidentally bumped heads." Your second sentence is grammatically correct, but unclear what it refers to.
2019年4月6日
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A good alternative way to say it would be a "clash of heads"
2019年4月6日
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Unfortunately head-on collision just means they were both facing each other when they collided, and out of context usually only works with vehicles (or if we know the two people are walking towards each other etc). I don't think there is a term in English that describes this exact thing.
For both examples, the best I can think of is to say "Their heads accidentally collided" and "She remembered when their heads had collided earlier"
The second example isn't 'wrong' (and actually is much more interesting than my rephrase) but right now it could just mean that they walked into each other face first. It depends how much detail you want to go into :)
2019年4月6日
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