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Перевод: fluke

[существительное]
камбала ; неудача ; палтус ; плоская рыба; трематода ; лапа якоря ; зазубрина гарпуна; счастливая случайность; неожиданная удача; провал ;
[глагол]
выиграть случайно; потерпеть неудачу; обмишулиться

Тезаурус:

1. This is because any given fluke has no particular expectation that its genes will be housed in its present host's offspring.
2. But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result - it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run - and as Norton's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved.
3. To assess whether this before - after difference was merely a fluke occurrence the Wilcoxon Test was undertaken and the result proved statistically significant, that is, Z=-7.7565, 2-tailed, P0.0000.
4. He telephoned me at lunchtime on that day and by a fluke I had a cancellation, so I was able to see him almost immediately.
5. Whereas snail genes stand to gain from the snail's reproduction, fluke genes don't.
6. Both snail genes and fluke genes stand to gain from the snail's bodily survival, all other things being equal.
7. Record companies look at agency rosters, like mine, or those of Barry Dickens (Fleetwood Mac, Bee Gees, Bob Dylan) or Ian Fluke (Eurythmics and simple Minds) and they choose the agent who is suitable.
8. They might be, but so might those of any of its fluke rivals.
9. Fluke's "Joni", a furious homage to Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi", was one of the dance singles that got away last summer.
10. If functionalism is false, then the success of the cognitive sciences is a massive scientific fluke.
11. If I am right about what the fluke genes are doing, it follows that we can legitimately speak of fluke genes as influencing snail bodies, in just the same sense as snail genes influence snail bodies.
12. So, I suggest that fluke genes exert an influence on the shell-secreting cells of the snail, an influence that benefits themselves but is costly to the snail's genes.
13. What is in it for the fluke?