serendipity

来自波斯童话故事《斯里兰卡三王子：The Three Princes of Serendip》，讲述了古斯里兰卡 的三个王子好运不断， 机缘巧合的奇妙故事。来自 Serendip,斯里兰卡古称，来自梵语 Simhaladvipa,狮子岛，来自 simhah,狮子，词源同 Singapore,新加坡，字面意思为狮子城，dvipa, 岛屿，词源同 Maldives,马尔代夫。

serendipity

serendipity: [18] Serendipity – the ‘faculty of making lucky discoveries’ – was coined in 1754 by the British writer Horace Walpole (1717–97). He took it from The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale whose leading characters, in Walpole’s words, ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’. (Serendip is an old name for Sri Lanka.)

serendipity (n.)

1754 (but rare before 20c.), coined by Horace Walpole (1717-92) in a letter to Horace Mann (dated Jan. 28); he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip," whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of." The name is from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), from Arabic Sarandib, from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island."

1. Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity.

我园子里最珍贵的几件物品是机缘巧合之下意外所得。

2. " It was serendipity all the way, " he says.

用他的话说是 “ 一直都很走运 ”.

3. Chiefly, it creates much more room for coincidence and serendipity.

首先, 凌乱无章为偶发事件及易遇奇缘创造了更多机会.

4. Serendipity came to the rescue.

解决的方法发现得很偶然.

5. Previous reports have indicated that the guaiac - based FOBT can detect small adenomas only by serendipity.

已有的报道证实愈创木大便隐血实验基本上不能检出小腺瘤.