By a tantalizing quirk of fate, the pair have been drawn to meet in the first round of the championship.

由于命运的捉弄，这对选手被抽中在锦标赛的第一轮相遇。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

By a strange quirk of fate they had booked into the same hotel.

真是天缘奇遇，他们住进了同一家旅馆。

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By a strange quirk of fate, the same players who were on target in the abandoned match were again on the scoresheet this time around.

命运真是奇怪，在被取消的那场比赛中进球的那个球员在这次比赛中再次进球。

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By a quirk of fate, the city has staged the games twice at times of austerity (as well as in 1908).

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By a quirk of historical fate, it was another Frenchman, Joseph Bonaparte, ruler over Madrid in the early 19th Century, who bequeathed to the city several of its more iconic plazas.

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