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| 释义 | 〔Newburyport〕A city of northeast Massachusetts at the mouth of the Merrimack River east-northeast of Lawrence. Settled in 1635, it was a shipbuilding and whaling port in early times and is now a resort community with varied light industries. Population, 16,317.纽伯里波特：美国马萨诸塞东北部城市，位于劳伦斯州东北偏东的梅里马克河口。1635年创建，早期是个造船业和捕鲸港口。现在是个拥有多种轻工业的旅游胜地社区。人口16,317〔Cobb〕American humorist known for his books and short-story collections, especiallyOld Judge Priest (1915). 科布，欧文·施鲁斯伯里：(1876-1944) 美国幽默作家，以他的书和短篇小说集尤以《老法官普里斯特》 （1915年）出名 〔Glastonbury〕A municipal borough of southwest England south-southwest of Bristol. There are extensive remains of an Iron Age village nearby. Glastonbury is the traditional site of King Arthur's Isle of Avalon. Population, 6,773.格拉斯顿伯里：英格兰西南部一市镇，位于布里斯托尔西南偏南。附近广布一铁器时代村落的遗物。这里是亚瑟王之阿瓦朗岛旧址。人口6,773〔Glastonbury〕A city of central Connecticut southeast of Hartford. Settled in 1650, it is a manufacturing center. Population, 27,901.格拉斯顿伯里：康涅狄格州中部一城市，位于哈特福德东南。建于1650年，是一个制造业中心。人口27,901〔Shaftesbury〕English politician. Originally a Royalist, he later opposed Charles II in the English Civil War and is considered the founder of the Whig Party.沙夫茨伯里：英国政治家。开始是保皇派，后来在英国内战中反对查理二世，被认为是辉格党的创始人〔serendipity〕We are indebted to the English author Horace Walpole for coining the wordserendipity. In one of his 3,000 or more letters, on which his literary reputation primarily rests,and specifically in a letter of January 28, 1754,Walpole says that "this discovery, indeed, is almost of that kind which I call Serendipity, a very expressive word.”Perhaps the word itself came to him by serendipity.Walpole formed the word on an old name for Sri Lanka,Serendip. He explained that this name was part of the title of "a silly fairy tale, calledThe Three Princes of Serendip : as their highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of . . . One of the most remarkable instances of thisaccidental sagacity ( for you must observe thatno discovery of a thing you are looking for, comes under this description) was of my Lord Shaftsbury [Anthony Ashley Cooper],who happening to dine at Lord Chancellor Clarendon's [Edward Hyde],found out the marriage of the Duke of York [later James II] and Mrs. Hyde [Anne Hyde, Clarendon's daughter], by the respect with which her mother [Frances Aylesbury Hyde] treated her at table.”我们非常感激英国作家霍勒斯·沃尔浦尔创造了单词serendipity。 他文学上的声誉主要依靠他的三千封或更多的信件中的一封，尤其是写于1754年一月二十八日的信中，沃尔浦尔说道“这一发现，实际上几乎是我称作意外发现珍奇事物的本领，一个非常有意味的词。”可能他得到这个单词也是靠意外发现珍奇事物的本领。沃尔浦尔创造这个词源自斯里兰卡的旧称Serendip 。 他解释说这个名字是“一个朴素的神话故事，称作The Three Princes of Serendip （斯里兰卡的三个王子）的童话”的名字的一部分： 当这些殿下旅行时，他们总是通过意外和精明地发现他们并没有寻求的东西…这种accidental sagacity（意外的聪慧） 的最著名的实例( 你必须注意到根据这种描述你没有 发现你 正在 寻找的东西） 是我的沙夫茨伯里老爷，偶然在钱塞勒·克拉伦登老爷处用餐时，发现了约克的杜克同海德夫人的婚事是根据她的母亲在吃饭款待她时发现的”〔Bradbury〕American writer of science fiction mingled with social commentary. His works includeThe Martian Chronicles (1950) and Fahrenheit 451 (1953). 布拉德伯里，雷·道格拉斯：(生于 1920) 美国科幻小说作家兼社会评论家。其著作有《火星人编年史》 （1950年）和 《华氏451度》 （1953年） |
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