fluke
n. 侥幸; 锚爪; 偶然事件; 鲽鱼
If you say that something good is a fluke, you mean that it happened accidentally rather than by being planned or arranged.
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。
1. a stroke of luck
2. a barb on a harpoon or arrow
3. flat blade-like projection on the arm of an anchor
4. either of the two lobes of the tail of a cetacean
5. parasitic flatworms having external suckers for attaching to a host
He didn't hit out, but hit the wicket by a fluke.
他并未用力击球, 却歪打正着击中了三柱门.
We won the football game by a fluke.
我们侥幸赢了足球赛.
His election victory was just a fluke.
他的当选纯属侥幸.
His failure in history examination was a mere fluke.
他历史考试没能及格纯属偶然.
Rather than dismiss it as a fluke, they will try every way possible to find it.
他们就会像猫爪一样紧盯着目标, 然后尝试各种可能的方法找到它,解决它.