the fact of something interesting or pleasant happening by chance 巧事;机缘凑巧 Meeting her like that, and there of all places, was true serendipity! 像那样在所有地方遇见她,是真正的意外收获!
Word Origin1754: coined by Horace Walpole, suggested by The Three Princes of Serendip, the title of a fairy tale in which the heroes “were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of”.