| 单词 | happy coincidence |
| 释义 | > as lemmashappy coincidence 2. Of an event or period: marked by good fortune; fortunate, lucky, auspicious; prosperous; favourable, propitious. Now only in certain fixed collocations (as happy accident, happy coincidence, happy position), often blending with senses A. 4b or A. 5b (see also Compounds 3). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adjective] > favoured or attended by good fortune eadilyOE blessedc1175 selec1225 yblessed1297 fortunedc1374 fortunatec1386 happya1393 happenc1400 well-fortunedc1425 lucklyc1450 fortunablec1470 fortunousc1470 well-fortunate1474 richc1478 lucky?1510 comical?1569 well1577 propitious1581 felicious1599 auspicious1616 felicitous1641 bonifate1656 faust1676 weirdly1807 arsey1953 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) iv. l. 367 After that a man poursuieth To love, so fortune suieth Fulofte and yifth hire happi chance To him. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 1334 Continuel happy commyng Of worldly gudes, es a takenyng Of þe dampnacion þat sal be. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 130 A Ioyfull hap & happy ioy. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. Bk. Duke Huon of Burdeux (1882–7) xlvii. 157 It was happy for them that the wether was so fayre. 1576 A. Fleming tr. G. Macropedius in Panoplie Epist. 378 What king in his adventures hath had more happie successe? 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 2 In lesse then one houre..we enjoyed a happie blast. 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. iii. 22 A late happy Discovery by two great Luminaries of this Island. 1734 W. Snelgrave Acct. Guinea 277 It proved very happy for me. 1792 T. Jefferson Let. 16 June in Papers (1990) XXIV. 85 It is happy for us that these are preachers without followers. 1839 R. I. Murchison Silurian Syst. i. xxxvi. 489 When one of those happy accidents occurs. 1895 L. J. Smith in Law Times Rep. 73 692/1 A testator in the happy position of having..realty both in Lancashire and in America. 1921 Soviet Russia July 20/1 A happy wind blew on our desk a copy of the Petrograd Pravda of March 30 containing a report of Lenin's speech at the railway men's conference. 1953 P. Larkin Let. 7 Oct. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 213 Yesterday I had a note from the Income Tax asking for £2.8.6d—tax underpaid. Happy coincidence, I don't think. 1995 Scotsman (Nexis) 13 Dec. 15 Is this by happy accident or more by dastardly design? 2002 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 13 June 17/1 It flies in the face of all natural justice that they should be in that happy position. < as lemmas |
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