fluke

英 [fluːk]

美 [fluːk]

n.  侥幸; 偶然; 意外

复数：flukes　过去式：fluked　过去分词：fluked　

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牛津词典

noun

• 侥幸；偶然；意外
  a lucky or unusual thing that happens by accident, not because of planning or skill
  1. They are determined to show that their last win was no fluke.
     他们决心证明他们上一次的胜利绝非侥幸。
  2. a fluke goal
     偶然的进球

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 侥幸;意外;偶然
  If you say that something good is afluke, you mean that it happened accidentally rather than by being planned or arranged.
  1. The discovery was something of a fluke...
     这个发现多少有点机缘巧合。
  2. By sheer fluke, one of the shipowner's employees was in the city.
     非常凑巧的是，船主的一个雇员正在城里。

英英释义

noun

• parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
  Synonym:trematodetrematode worm
• either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
• flat bladelike projection on the arm of an anchor
  Synonym:flue
• a barb on a harpoon or arrow
• a stroke of luck
  Synonym:good luckgood fortune

双语例句

• Getting that job was a fluke.
  弄到那份工作纯属侥幸。
• They brushed it off as a fluke and went on their merry ways.
  他们就没把它当回事儿，接着开心地谈别的去了。
• Is this conclusion reliable, or was it a measurement fluke?
  这个结论可靠吗？还是由于度量的误差造成的假像？
• O-ne bad round's a fluke.
  只坏一个算是意外。
• It's a fluke in the schedule.
  这只是日程表上的一个意外。
• By sheer fluke, one of the shipowner's employees was in the city.
  非常凑巧的是，船主的一个雇员正在城里。
• They tell themselves it is to prove it was not a fluke, to prove they can do it alone, without a particular partner or mentor.
  他们告诉自己这是为了证明他们的成功不是出于侥幸，没有某个合作伙伴或导师的帮助，他们也可以独自做到。
• Passing the exam was a real fluke he didn't work for it at all.
  他考试及格实在是侥幸，因为他根本没下过功夫。
• Dr. Baxter's groggy, wee-hour epiphany wasn't a fluke.
  巴克斯特医生在凌晨疲惫之时的顿悟并非侥幸。
• They developed prototypes of their ideas using the Mach operating system, and later sponsored work extending the "Fluke" research operating system.
  他们使用Mach操作系统开发了他们的思想的原型，后来发起的工作扩展了“Fluke”研究操作系统。