serendipity的词源
英文词源
- serendipity
- serendipity: [18] Serendipity – the ‘faculty of making lucky discoveries’ – was coined in 1754 by the British writer Horace Walpole (1717–97). He took it from The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale whose leading characters, in Walpole’s words, ‘were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of’. (Serendip is an old name for Sri Lanka.)
- serendipity (n.)
- 1754 (but rare before 20c.), coined by Horace Walpole (1717-92) in a letter to Horace Mann (dated Jan. 28); he said he formed it from the Persian fairy tale "The Three Princes of Serendip," whose heroes "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of." The name is from Serendip, an old name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka), from Arabic Sarandib, from Sanskrit Simhaladvipa "Dwelling-Place-of-Lions Island."
中文词源
serendipity（意外收获）：根据斯里兰卡的古称锡兰杜撰的单词
英语单词serendipity指的是“意外发现珍宝、幸运的发现、惊喜”等含义。它是由美国作家Horace Walpole杜撰的。在他写给朋友的一份邮件中，Horace Walpole解释到，他是根据波斯神话故事《The Three Princes of Serendip》（三个锡兰王子）中的serendip一词，创造了serendipity一词。Serendip（锡兰）是Sri Lanka（斯里兰卡）的古称，来自阿拉伯语对斯里兰卡的称呼Sarandib。这个神话故事讲的是三个波斯王子去锡兰岛探险，一路上意外发现了很多他们并没有去寻求但很珍贵的东西。
但是，这个词直到20世纪才开始被广泛使用。美国浪漫爱情电影《Serendipity》（缘分天注定）中，片中男女主人公不止一次的传奇式相遇，是serendipity一词内涵的最好诠释。
serendipity：[,ser(ə)n'dɪpɪtɪ] n.意外发现珍宝，意外收获，幸运的发现，惊喜
该词的英语词源请访问找单词词源英文版：serendipity 词源，serendipity 含义。
来自波斯童话故事《斯里兰卡三王子：The Three Princes of Serendip》，讲述了古斯里兰卡 的三个王子好运不断， 机缘巧合的奇妙故事。来自 Serendip,斯里兰卡古称，来自梵语 Simhaladvipa,狮子岛，来自 simhah,狮子，词源同 Singapore,新加坡，字面意思为狮子城，dvipa, 岛屿，词源同 Malpes,马尔代夫。
