fluke
fluke 英 [flu:k] 美 [fluk]
n. 侥幸；锚爪；意外的挫折 vt. 侥幸成功；意外受挫 vi. 侥幸成功
名词复数:flukes
- 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.
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- n. 侥幸；锚爪；意外的挫折
- vt. 侥幸成功；意外受挫
- vi. 侥幸成功
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1. They are not yet quite sure. Their result has a 0.7% chance of being a fluke.
他们还不完全确定，毕竟他们的结果有0.7%的可能性是侥幸获得的。
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2. Physicists can claim a discovery if the chances of their result being a fluke of statistics are greater than five standard deviations, or less than one in a few million.
如果实验结果侥幸出现的概率在统计上高于五个标准差，或者小于百万分之一，物理学家就可以断言这是一项发现。
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3. That meant that the finding wasn't a fluke somehow related to candy-covered chocolates.
那意谓了发现是不一个侥幸不知何故相关的对复盖糖果的巧克力。
- fluke (n.1) "flat end of an arm of an anchor," 1560s, perhaps from fluke (n.3) "flatfish," on resemblance of shape, or from Low German flügel "wing." Transferred meaning "whale's tail" (in plural, flukes) is by 1725, so called from resemblance.
- fluke (n.2) "lucky stroke, chance hit," 1857, also flook, said to be originally a lucky shot at billiards, of uncertain origin. Century Dictionary connects it with fluke (n.1) in reference to the whale's use of flukes to get along rapidly (to go a-fluking or some variant of it, "go very fast," is in Dana, Smyth, and other sailors' books of the era). OED (2nd ed. print) allows only that it is "Possibly of Eng. dialectal origin."
- fluke (n.3) "flatfish," Old English floc "flatfish," related to Old Norse floke "flatfish," flak "disk, floe," from Proto-Germanic *flok-, from PIE root *plak- (1) "to be flat." The parasite worm (1660s) so called from resemblance of shape.
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