| 单词 | fluke |
| 释义 | fluke (fluːk ) Word forms: flukes countable noun [usually singular, oft by NOUN] If you say that something good is a fluke, you mean that it happened accidentally rather than by being planned or arranged. [informal] The discovery was something of a fluke. By sheer fluke, one of the shipowner's employees was in the city. Synonyms: stroke of luck, accident, coincidence, chance occurrence Collocations: statistical fluke There's an element of smoke and mirrors, or at least of statistical fluke, in this. Times, Sunday Times The absolute dominance in terms of numbers and title winners cannot be some statistical fluke. Times,Sunday Times But when the total increase in a number of countries reaches more than 25 per cent over a few decades, it seems like more than a statistical fluke. Globe and Mail More statistically significant results can not be mere statistical flukes but can still result from experimental error or inaccurate estimates of experimental precision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 侥幸 Japanese: まぐれ当たり |
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