喜樂美語
  1. 1僥倖、碰巧的好運

    A fluke is something good that happens mostly by luck, not because someone was . “The goal was a fluke.” It is a little informal. You can also use it as a verb in sport: he fluked that shot — he did not mean to place it so well. It seems to have first meant a lucky shot at . After that the story splits: it might link to German Glück, “luck,” or to the two big parts of a whale's tail, also called flukes. Scholars do not agree, and the honest answer is that we do not know. Same spelling, other meanings: a whale's tail, a kind of worm, the hook of an anchor. Those are not this sense.

組成Unknown, perhaps dialect. It seems to have first meant a lucky shot at billiards. Possibly tied to a whale's flukes, or possibly from German Glück (“luck”). None of these is certain.

原始詞典資料11 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Flukename

  • 1

    A surname.

flukenoun詞源 1/fluːk/

  • 1

    A lucky or improbable occurrence that could probably never be repeated.

    • We've classified by a fluke; actually, the first goal was just a total fluke.
    • “[…] That's the first time in the history of Bierce's Cove that two men made that jump on the same sea. And all the risk was yours, coming last.” “It was a fluke,” Billy insisted.

flukeverb詞源 1/fluːk/

  • 1

    To obtain a successful outcome by pure chance.

    • I fluked a pass in the multiple-choice exam.
  • 2

    ball-gamesgameshobbiesTo fortuitously pot a ball in an unintended way.

    • He fluked the other red into the middle pocket, despite the double kiss.

flukenoun詞源 2/fluːk/

  • 1

    A summer flounder (Paralichthys dentatus)

  • 2

    A trematode; a parasitic flatworm of the class Trematoda, related to tapeworms (class Cestoda).

    • The man became infected with flukes after eating a meal of raw fish.

flukenoun詞源 3/fluːk/

  • 1

    nauticaltransportAny of the triangular blades at the end of an anchor, designed to catch the ground.

    • The fluke of the anchor was wedged between two outcroppings of rock and could not be dislodged.
    • The honest, rough piece of iron, so simple in appearance, has more parts than the human body has limbs: the ring, the stock, the crown, the flukes, the palms, the shank. All this, according to the journalist, is “cast” when a ship arriving at an anchorage is brought up.
  • 2

    Either of the two lobes of a whale's or similar creature's tail.

    • The dolphin had an open wound on the left fluke of its tail where the propeller had injured it.
    • But though this sculpture is half man and half whale, so as only to give the tail of the latter, yet that small section of him is all wrong. It looks more like the tapering tail of an anaconda, than the broad palms of the true whale's majestic flukes.
  • 3

    A metal hook on the head of certain staff weapons (such as a bill), made in various forms depending on function, whether used for grappling or to penetrate armour when swung at an opponent.

    • The polearm had a wide, sharpened fluke attached to the central point.
  • 4

    In general, a winglike formation on a central piece.

    • After casting the bronze statue, we filed down the flukes and spurs from the molding process.
  • 5

    Waste cotton.

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