To come back to the wharves. I do not know of any spot with such a fascinating air of dreams and idleness about it as the old wharf at the end of Court Street. The very fact that it was once a noisy, busy place, crowded with sailors and soldiers--in the war of 1812--gives an emphasis to the quiet that broods over it to-day. The lounger who sits of a summer afternoon on a rusty anchor fluke in the shadow of one of the silent warehouses, and look on the lonely river as it goes murmuring past the town, cannot be too grateful to the India trade for having taken itself off elsewhere.英文原著 · 《An Old Town By The Sea》
Oh, that's an outrage. That' s not fair. The Caledonias will get it now. Yes, sir, they did get it. Oh, well, accidents will happen. "Where's Caledonia now?" Well, they got it by a fluke. What say? Well only for - Oh, pshaw!英文原著 · 《Back Home》
"They 're going to make false starts aplenty," Bud remarked after the first fluke." Jeff and I have it out next. I'll just give Smoke another treatment." He dismounted, looked at Jerry undecidedly and slapped him on the knee. "I'm glad to have a friend like you," he said impulsively. "There's a lot of two-faced sinners around here that would steal a man blind. Don't think I'm altogether a fool."英文原著 · 《Cow-Country》
There is his back fin again. And-- Ah! was that not a slap! How the water boiled and foamed; and what a tail he had! And how the mackerel flew out of the water! You are a lucky boy to have seen that. I have not seen one of those gentlemen show his "flukes," as they call them, since I was a boy on the Cornish coast. Where is he gone?英文原著 · 《Madam How and Lady Why》
"'It ain't been my habit,' Doc Millikin answers, 'to do any painless dentistry when I find a Yank cutting an eye-tooth. So the Stars and Stripes ain't lending any marines to shell the huts of the Colombian cannibals, hey? Oh, say, can you see by the dawn's early light the star-spangled banner has fluked in the fight? What's the matter with the War Department, hey? It's a great thing to be a citizen of a gold- standard nation, ain't it?'英文原著 · 《Roads of Destiny》
Every four years, we give these guys a gold medal in flukentot when they grew up having to flukentot to school.美剧 · 《The News Room》
You can redeem yourself as Secretary of State over the next four years, or go down in history as a fluke, who bungled the Middle East and couldn't even close the deal in Brandenburg.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
I, uh... I lovingly nursed them, and then, uh, by some...sick fluke, Claire was the only one there when the ducks were born, so they imprinted on her.美剧 · 《Modern Family》