fluke

• n. 僥幸；錨爪；意外的挫折
• vt. 僥幸成功；意外受挫
• vi. 僥幸成功
• n. (Fluke)人名；(英)弗盧克

詞源不詳。可能來自lucky改編的英語方言詞。

fluke (n.1)

"flat end of an arm of an anchor," 1560s, perhaps from fluke (n.3) 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, Smythe, 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" (see placenta). The parasite worm (1660s) so called from resemblance of shape.

1. By sheer fluke, one of the shipowner's employees was in the city.

非常湊巧的是，船主的一個雇員正在城裏。

來自柯林斯例句

2. They are determined to show that their last win was no fluke.

他們決心證明他們上一次的勝利絕非僥幸。

來自《權威詞典》

3. FLUKE then how to use the LANMETER network tester to detect slow network performance or bad?

那麽如何使用FLUKE公司的LANMETER網絡 測試儀來檢測網絡速度慢或性能不良?

來自互聯網

4. The discovery was something of a fluke.

這個發現多少有點機緣巧合。

來自辭典例句

5. His election victory was just a fluke.

他的當選純屬僥幸.

來自辭典例句