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单词 serendipitous
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serendipitous
adjective
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/ˌser.ənˈdɪp.ɪ.təs/us
/ˌser.ənˈdɪp.ə.t̬əs/
happeningorfoundbychance:
Reading should be anadventure, apersonalexperiencefullof serendipitoussurprises.
Ateamof researchers has made a serendipitousdiscoverythat couldhelpin thestruggletocureobesity.
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  • Serendipitousencountersandexperienceshaveprovidedme with some goodmaterial.
  • He had alwayswantedtoreturnhometostartacompany, and themoveprovedserendipitous.
  • Abouthalfof allgreatdiscoveriesarepurelyserendipitous.
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(Definition ofserendipitousfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofserendipitous

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Accordingly, they develop a computational model of irony based on three types of ironic situations, which they call intentional,serendipitous, and competence irony.
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The apparentserendipitousisolation of these fragments is difficult to explain.
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But curve fitting, intentional orserendipitous, rarely illuminates underlying psychological or neurophysiological processes.
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There are one or two famous cases ofserendipitousdiscoveries like penicillin, but generally speaking, science appears and moves by prediction.
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Their case also exemplifies migration decision-making as a process that evolves over the lifecourse in response to both predictable andserendipitousevents.
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For example, the creative process produces at least some unintended,serendipitousresults or discoveries.
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Much appears, in hindsight, to have beenserendipitous.
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The current state of knowledge of animal nutrition modelling results mostly from the discernment and unceasing efforts of our predecessors rather thanserendipitousdiscoveries.
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Listening later, the distant approach of the van did contribute one of the more evocative sounds of the project, aserendipitousfound object.
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The collection, in fact, has been revived after a number ofserendipitousdiscoveries, particularly of photographs and drawings in a number of archives.
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However, there was one extra, almost imperceptible and certainlyserendipitouselement that became part of the final recording.
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Thus, this first-order method has all sorts ofserendipitousproperties not shared by general first-order methods.
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This is not aserendipitouscoincidence.
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Suchserendipitousdiscoveries and the new research that they suggest may, in the long run, be one of the greatest benefits one can derive from reading this book.
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And until everything is scanned and made available to sufficiently sophisticated search engines, so much research for citations has to beserendipitous, however much one attempts to pretend otherwise.
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