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serendipity

/ser-uhn-dip-i-tee/US // ˌsɛr ənˈdɪp ɪ ti //UK // (ˌsɛrənˈdɪpɪtɪ) //

偶然性,偶然的机会,偶然事件,巧合

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
    • : good fortune; luck: What serendipity—she got the first job she applied for!

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Examples

  • They're machines for creativity, collaboration, and serendipity.

  • To preserve the serendipity of finding a random booth in the convention hall, exhibitors can announce, using notifications, that they are hanging out live at their virtual booths.

  • That a Yank would come along decades later to buy the house felt like serendipity to the family.

  • Studying millions of objects at a time or executing preplanned programs may be efficient, but science also thrives on serendipity, on astronomers stealing a few moments for an oddball observation or a creative idea.

  • “It’s definitely an interesting story about serendipity,” says Jared Leadbetter, an environmental microbiologist at Caltech.

  • Then came one of those weird bits of serendipity that make the writing life—and the book tour—worth all the trouble.

  • I was thinking of new ways to engage with my audience and with a bit of serendipity and inspiration the cake was born.

  • I often think about the fall lines of life, the invisible tightropes that divide moments of calamity and serendipity.

  • More often than not, turncoat spies are successfully recruited as one-offs, through serendipity and dumb luck.

  • It strips music buying of serendipity and context, making Justin Bieber as important as the Beatles.

  • It was just six o'clock, and the public-house opposite the Serendipity shop was lighting up.

  • Serendipity, sėr-en-dip′i-ti, n. a love for rare old books and other articles of virtu.

  • That polite trifler is fond of a word which he coined himself—'Serendipity.'

  • It is more than this: it is a matter of observation to any one with a moderate degree of "Serendipity."

  • They think of serendipity as earned, of work as bestowed, of success as deserved and reserved to the deserving.