| 单词 | serendipitist |
| 释义 | serendipity /ser-ən-dipˈi-ti/nounThe faculty of making fortunate or beneficial discoveries by accident ORIGIN: Serendip, a former name for Sri Lanka. Horace Walpole coined the word (1754) from the title of the 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’ serendipˈitist noun
serendipˈitous adjective
serendipˈitously adverb |
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