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”。

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You're making discoveries that can only benefit you.

你能制造仅对你自己有利的发现。

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That archaeologists were constantly making discoveries that revealed the unsoundness of many of the critics' assumptions.

考古学家的发现经常揭示了批判主义者的假设是错误的。

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But, we'll see as 3.091 progresses, people working almost on the same topic, making new discoveries out of the same lab, one of them might subsequently win the Nobel in physics.

但是，我们会看到随着3。091这门课的进行，人们几乎在研究的同一内容，在同一个实验做出重大的发现，他们中的一个很有可能,获得诺贝尔物理学奖。

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Now at last he found himself in the thick of things--a Nobel Prize race between two teams of researchers making pioneering discoveries about human reproductive hormones.

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The team is more concerned about getting its sample handling procedures right than making significant new discoveries.

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