serendipity
英 [,ser(ə)n'dɪpɪtɪ]
美[,sɛrən'dɪpəti]
- n. 意外发现珍奇事物的本领；有意外发现珍宝的运气
考试真题
- The word serendipity was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who 4twere always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of.
2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B
- We are suffering, he writes, from a serendipity deficit.
2017年12月四级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B