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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