什么是“幸运小姐”（Lady Luck）？_其他

什么是“幸运小姐”（Lady Luck）？

All of these conditions seem to indicate the stars are aligning for Ford.

In fact, some analysts believe among all the U.S. automakers, Ford stands to benefit most from the Japan quake through improved pricing, as opposed to volume, since Ford itself is running on tight inventories of the small cars.

If Ford plays its cards right, keeps churning out just enough Focus and Fiesta cars to meet demand and shun incentives, watch for a wink from Lady Luck.

- Lady Luck seems to be smiling on Ford, AutoNews.com, May 4, 2011.

3. Three wins from their final five games, the manager Roberto Martínez believes, will be sufficient for Wigan Athletic to pull off their now customary feat of avoiding relegation by the skin of their teeth. Given the last of those games is against Aston Villa, after Saturday’s results the team closest to the Latics in the table, he may be right. The question is whether they will pick up the two other wins Martínez reckons will leave their fate resting on that final day showdown.

If they play as well as he maintained they did in both this game and in their previous match against Manchester City, Martínez thinks they have every chance. And to be sure for long periods, including most of the second half, his players had West Ham chasing shadows. What they failed to do, however, was convert their extraordinary share of possession into the thing that matters most.

Accepting they were being outplayed, West Ham devoted their considerable energies to defending, enjoyed a decent slice of luck when Wigan allowed Matt Jarvis’s low cross to curl across their six-yard box and into the far corner of the net, and with 10 minutes remaining made the game safe when Kevin Nolan scored on the break. Job well done, shrugged their manager, Sam Allardyce, who indicated he would sign a new contract now his side are effectively safe from relegation.