The word "serendipity" was coined by Horace Walpole in an 1854 letter, from a tale of three princes who "were always making discoveries, by accident, of things they were not in search of".
“Serendipity”这个词，是在1854年由霍勒斯·沃波尔在一封信中创造的，这个词源于一个关于三个王子的故事，他们“总是意外地发现那些他们无意寻找的东西”。
“Gameful” is a word I coined to describe what it feels like to have the heart of a gamer, as opposed to just “playful, ” which sounds like you’re not taking something seriously.
“gameful（游戏的）”是我创造的一个词，用来形容那种想要听到游戏者心声的状态，与它相对的是“playful（玩乐的）”，playful听上去好像对某件事并不认真对待。
"Gameful" is a word I coined to describe what it feels like to have the heart of a gamer, as opposed to just "playful," which sounds like you're not taking something seriously.
“gameful(游戏的)”是我创造的一个词，用来形容那种想要听到游戏者心声的状态，与它相对的是“playful(玩乐的)”，playful听上去好像对某件事并不认真对待。
Take "Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian" as an example. This word, which means "a word coined so as to be long" is actually longer than its definition.
以“Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian ”为例，它是指“为了长而创造的单词”，单词本身实际上比定义还长。
It is unclear where the name Paralympics came from but it was probably first coined as a pun or 'portmanteau' word combining the words paraplegic and Olympic.
至于paralympics这个词的来源似乎并不为人所知，但是它第一次被作为一个合成词可能来源于paraplegic和Olympic这两个词。
A newly-coined word has come into appearance in magazines.
杂志上已有一个新造的词出现。
Altruism is a rather new word for unselfishness, coined by 19th century humanist philosopher Auguste Comte as an alternative to egoism, which means putting oneself above all else.
利他主义是无私的另一种新的说法，这是在19世纪人类社会哲学家奥古斯丁特伯爵创造的一个相对于自我主义的词语，自我主义的意思是一切把自我放在首位。
Automation is a word coined in the 1940s to describe processed by which machines do tasks previously performed by people.
自动化一词是在40年代创造的，用来描述机器执行由人预先设定的程序的过程。
He not only coined the term (which he admitted was an odd word), he invented a new model for running a large organization.
他不仅杜撰了这个词(他自己承认这是个古怪的字眼)，而且还发明了一种执掌大型组织的新模式。
"Freeter" is a word coined by the Japanese, the combination of "free" and "arbeiter" (the word means "worker" in German), in reference to those freelancing young people.
“飞特族”是日本人把英语中“自由”和德语中的“工人”组合后发明的词，指那些从事自由职业的年轻人。
The word comes from a term coined by Shakespeare in Hamlet, act 1, scene 5: And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you.
这个词最早来源于莎士比亚戏剧《哈姆雷特》第一场第五幕中的一句对白：像哈姆雷特这样贫苦的人，要怎样向你表达他的爱意和友情呢。
The word comes from a term coined by Shakespeare in Hamlet, act 1, scene 5: And what so poor a man as Hamlet is May do, to express his love and friending to you.
这个词最早来源于莎士比亚戏剧《哈姆雷特》第一场第五幕中的一句对白：像哈姆雷特这样贫苦的人，要怎样向你表达他的爱意和友情呢。
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