serendipity
英 [,ser(ə)n'dɪpɪtɪ]
美 [,sɛrən'dɪpəti]
- n. 意外發現珍奇事物的本領；有意外發現珍寶的運氣
助記提示
1. Serendip / Serendib => Seren- (諧音、音譯“錫蘭”) => 音譯“塞倫迪培、塞倫迪普、塞倫狄普”。
2. Ceylon 音譯“錫蘭”。
3. 音變變體：Ceylon <===> Seren- <====> Srilanka / Sri Lanka.
中文詞源
serendipity 機緣巧合來自波斯童話故事《斯裏蘭卡三王子：The Three Princes of Serendip》，講述了古斯裏蘭卡 的三個王子好運不斷， 機緣巧合的奇妙故事。來自 Serendip,斯裏蘭卡古稱，來自梵語 Simhaladvipa,獅子島，來自 simhah,獅子，詞源同 Singapore,新加坡，字麵意思為獅子城，dvipa, 島嶼，詞源同 Maldives,馬爾代夫。
英文詞源
- 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."
雙語例句
- 1. Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity.
- 我園子裏最珍貴的幾件物品是機緣巧合之下意外所得。
來自辭典例句
- 2. " It was serendipity all the way, " he says.
- 用他的話說是 “ 一直都很走運 ”.
來自名作英譯部分
- 3. Chiefly, it creates much more room for coincidence and serendipity.
- 首先, 淩亂無章為偶發事件及易遇奇緣創造了更多機會.
來自互聯網
- 4. Serendipity came to the rescue.
- 解決的方法發現得很偶然.
來自互聯網
- 5. Previous reports have indicated that the guaiac - based FOBT can detect small adenomas only by serendipity.
- 已有的報道證實愈創木大便隱血實驗基本上不能檢出小腺瘤.
來自互聯網