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单词 fluke
释义
fluke
noun
uk
/fluːk/us
/fluːk/

flukenoun(LUCK)

[CorU]informal
something thathappens, usually something good, that is theresultofchanceinsteadofskillorplanning:
The firstgoalwas just a fluke.第一个进球只是侥幸命中。
Iheardabout thesalebysheerfluke.
If you gotrichby somefluke ofnaturethat doesn't make youbrilliant.
Related word
fluky
More examples
  • Thediscoverywas a fluke.
  • I don'tthinkit's a fluke that thenumbersaddup the way that they do.
  • I went therealmostby fluke.
  • Thefactthat Ibeathim was no fluke.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Chance and randomness
  • accident
  • aleatory
  • arbitrarily
  • arbitrariness
  • arbitrary
  • even-money
  • fluky
  • fortuitous
  • fortuitously
  • fortuitousness
  • luck
  • luck intosomething
  • more by accident than designidiom
  • more by luck than judgmentidiom
  • non-purposive
  • randomized
  • randomly
  • randomness
  • serendipitous
  • stumble intosomething
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flukenoun(OF WHALE)

[C]
one of the twopartsthat awhale'stailisdividedinto:
Individualhumpbackwhalescan beidentifiedbytheirtailflukes.
More examples
  • Thewhalesgracefullyarcedout of thewaterbeforedisappearingagain with aflickoftheirflukes.
  • I haveseenwhalesswimmingin acirclearound aschoolofherrings,forcingthem together in awhirlpoolcreatedbytheirflukes.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Miscellaneous animal body parts
  • back end
  • bobtail
  • collar
  • dorsal
  • fetlock
  • finny
  • flipper
  • giblets
  • gill
  • nipple
  • pouch
  • pouched
  • prehensile
  • pseudopod
  • sting
  • teat
  • tentacle
  • underpart
  • vesicle
  • withers
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Marine mammals

flukenoun(WORM)

[CorU]
asmallflatworm(= acreaturewith aflatbody)thatlivesas aparasiteinside or on thebodyof anotheranimal, and cancausedisease:
Parasites such asliverflukes canquicklymake asheeplosecondition.
More examples
  • Thecauseof thediseaseis abloodfluke.
  • Thecrabhostsaparasiticlungfluke that caninfectmammalsincludinghumans.
  • Inspectyourfishcarefullytoseeif there are anyexternalparasites, such as flukes.
  • The ant'sbrainhas beeninvadedby a fluke.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Worms, snails, slugs & similar animals
  • annelid
  • centipede
  • earthworm
  • echinococcus
  • escargot
  • gastropod
  • leech
  • limacine
  • millepede
  • millipede
  • nematode
  • pill bug
  • roly-poly
  • roundworm
  • slug
  • snail
  • tapeworm
  • worm
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Zoology: veterinary medicine
(Definition offlukefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)
fluke
noun[Cusually singular]
informal
uk
/fluːk/us
/fluːk/
something good that hashappenedthat is theresultofchanceinsteadofskillorplanning
侥幸；偶然；意外
The firstgoalwas just a fluke.第一个进球只是侥幸命中。

fluke| American Dictionary

fluke
noun[Cusually sing]
us
/fluk/
something, usually a good thing, that hashappenedasresultofchanceinsteadofskillorplanning:
He’stryingtoprovethat his lastvictorywasn’t a fluke.
(Definition offlukefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoffluke

fluke
Maximum values obtained from measurements vary in liver flukes from the three host species (table 2).
From theCambridge English Corpus
Human infections with the lungflukeare acquired by eating raw or undercooked freshwater crabs containing live metacercariae.
From theCambridge English Corpus
This temperature has also been used for storing metacercariae by other authors, thus enabling comparative analysis with lowland liverflukeisolates.
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We then focus on flukes and snails, highlighting important biological traits with regard to population structure.
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Naturally infected flukes were identical with those recovered from experimentally infected fish.
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In the second group of six rabbits each given 200 metacercariae, five were infected, with two or three flukes per host.
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When metacercariae harvested from the snakes and intercostal muscles of rodents were infected orally to cats, they developed into adult flukes in the small intestine.
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Muscle fibres enzymatically isolated from theflukehave been characterised in terms of their morphology and contractile proteins.
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Isolated muscle fibres from the ventral sucker may represent a more homogeneous population of muscle fibres than fibres isolated from a wholeflukedigest.
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The main cause of anaemia in fascioliasis is the passage of red blood cells into the gastrointestinal tract, presumably via flukes and the bile duct.
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Following entry into the liver, theflukeburrows through the liver parenchyma before reaching its final site in the bile duct.
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In contrast, follicles were present in flukes at the earliest time of recovery from the bile duct, namely, 5 weeks 3 days post-infection.
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Partially digested ventral suckers of adult flukes were prepared as described previously, then fixed and processed for phalloidin staining.
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These spines may facilitate the movement of juvenile flukes during their migration to the biliary system of the liver.
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Transverse and longitudinal thick tissue sections of adult flukes (more than 12 weeks old) were fixed and processed for phalloidin staining as described above.
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