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Fluke Good Stroke Lucky Word Team 英 Fluːk] 美

英语单词 fluke
英美音标 英 [fluːk] 美 [fluːk]
中文释义 n.侥幸;偶然的机会;锚爪;比目鱼;吸虫;鲸的尾片
英语例句 (1) His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.
(2) She is not usually good at tennis, and that winning stroke was a fluke.
(3) She was lucky enough to get the job by a fluke.
中文例句 (1) 他历史考试没能及格纯属偶然。
(2) 她平时网球打得并不好,那取胜的一击不过是侥幸而已。
(3) 她实在是够幸运的,能在偶然中得到那份工作。
vocabulary简明 A fluke is an unexpected stroke of good luck. It was a fluke to find that fifty dollar bill on the ground, and it made you smile for the rest of the day.
vocabulary扩展 The word fluke was first used in 1857 in reference to a lucky shot at billiards. If something good happens to you by chance when you're not expecting it, that's a fluke. The word fluke can also be used in a negative or insulting way. For example, if your favorite sports team loses an important game, you could complain that it was just a fluke that the other team won — meaning they didn't deserve to win and somehow got lucky.
柯林斯解释
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[N-COUNT 可数名词]侥幸;意外;偶然 If you say that something good is a fluke, you mean that it happened accidentally rather than by being planned or arranged.
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  [INFORMAL 非正式]
  • The discovery was something of a fluke...

    这个发现多少有点机缘巧合。

  • 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。

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