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The word 车祸 (chē huò) is formed through a direct and logical combination of two independent concepts: 车, meaning "vehicle", and 祸, meaning "disaster" or "misfortune". By placing these two characters side-by-side, the compound visually and conceptually fuses them to instantly convey the specific idea of a "vehicle disaster", which is naturally understood as a traffic accident. It is a semantic compound where the meaning of the whole is derived from the simple, combined meaning of its parts.
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昨天发生了一场车祸。
这场车祸造成两人受伤。
高速公路上的车祸导致交通中断。
如果驾驶员遵守交通规则，就能避免车祸。
调查显示，超速是引发车祸的主要原因之一。