serendipity
n. 偶然发现珍宝的运气/才能, 易遇奇缘的运气
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教材释义与例句
意外发现珍奇事物的本领；有意外发现珍宝的运气
释义与例句
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The phenomenon of making an unplanned, fortunate discovery through a combination of unexpected circumstances and insightful recognition.
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An unsought, unintended or unexpected, but fortunate, discovery or learning experience that occurs by accident.
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可数 不可数2007, Erin McKean, speech at TED Serendipity is when you find things you weren't looking for because finding what you are looking for is so damn difficult.
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The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.
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From Serendip (“variant of Serendib: Ceylon, Sri Lanka”) + -ity. Coined by English writer and politician Horace Walpole in 1754 based on the Persian story of The Three Princes of Serendip, who (Walpole wrote to a friend) were “always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of”.
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