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.
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We are suffering, he writes, from a serendipity deficit.
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(意外发现或发明新奇或有价值事物的)运气,走运,机缘凑巧
Serendipity is the luck some people have in finding or creating interesting or valuable things by chance.