black swan

Noun

figuratively also attributive

Japanese Meaning

オーストラリア産の羽が黒い白鳥（Cygnus atratus）。 / 比喩として、存在しないと思われたが、後に実例が発見されるような、極めて稀な出来事や現象。

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A solitary black swan glided across the lake at dawn, its crimson beak reflecting in the water.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

朝、孤独なオーストラリア産の黒い羽を持つ白鳥が湖を滑るように進み、赤い嘴が水面に映っていた。

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Sense（1）

Cygnus atratus, an Australian swan whose feathers are black.

Sense（2）

(figuratively) Something believed impossible or not to exist, of which an example is subsequently found.

Sense（3）

(figuratively, also attributive) A rare and hard-to-predict event with major consequences.

In the face of black swans — also known as fat-tail events, for the way their occurrences are distributed along a probability curve — market pricing may be impossible.

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black swans

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