Serendipity is nice when it happens, but you may not wish to risk your precious thinking time hoping for random inspiration.(意想不到的事情降臨的話當然不錯，但你可能不希望寶貴的思考時間用于天馬行空上。)

The two biggest blocks to serendipity seem to be ego-fear and "other plans".(“意外之得”最大的兩個阻礙似乎是“自己嚇自己”和“其他計劃”。)

Recommendation engines are the enemy of serendipity and Great Books and the avant-garde.(推薦引擎絕對與那些奇遇發(fā)現(xiàn)、偉大著作和前衛(wèi)派們勢不兩立。)

Some of the best effects in my garden have been the result of serendipity.(我花園里最珍貴的幾件物品是機緣巧合之下意外所得。)

It may be that, with regard to communication, there's a trade-off between efficiency and serendipity.(可能對于通訊而言，效率和新穎不可兼得。)

This is the kind of serendipity you want!(這正是那種你心心期盼的命中注定！)

Canyoneering is all about the serendipity of discovery, he says.(他說：“峽谷探險的樂趣就在于意外的發(fā)現(xiàn)。”)

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”這個詞是由霍勒斯·沃波爾在1854年的一封信中創(chuàng)造出來的，源于一個關(guān)于三個王子的故事，這三個王子“總是意外地發(fā)現(xiàn)那些他們并沒有在尋找的東西。”)

Then serendipity stepped in.One morning Dr Liggins discovered that a lamb he had infused with cortisol had been born overnight.(機緣巧合之下，一天早上，利兢絲醫(yī)生發(fā)現(xiàn)一只注射了皮質(zhì)醇的羊羔在晚上生產(chǎn)了。)

Serendipity and luck are by their very nature unpredictable, and therefore not part of any good plan.(意外之得和幸運本質(zhì)上都是不可預測的，因此不屬于任何好計劃的一部分。)