英语词汇serendipity的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	serendipity
词源	serendipity. A desirable discovery made by accident. English novelist Horace Walpole coined the word in 1754, basing it upon a lucky faculty enjoyed by the three heroes of the old Per- sian fairy tale “The Three Princes of Serendip.” Serendip is an old Arabic name for Ceylon (Sindhalawipa, “Lion Island”).
随便看	there but for the grace of god go i thereby hangs a tale the red one there-s a one-eyed man in the game there-s as good fish in the sea as ever came out of it there-s a sucker born every minute there-s many a slip twixt between cup and lip there-s no love lost between them there-s no there there there-s nothing in the middle of the road but yellow stripes and dead armadillos there-s nothing new under the sun there-s the rub there was a little girl there were giants in the earth in those days the rich are different from you and me the richest corpse in the graveyard thermos the rock thersitical the same dog bit me thesaurus the scene opens the schilder technique the screw plot the second city of the world

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