Arbitrarily
[,ɑrbə'trɛrəli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.
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例句/造句/用法:
- They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- It is my misfortune to be, not so much a man of business, as what the world calls (arbitrarily) a gentleman. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Politics, as the contributors to the Congressional Record seem to understand it, is a very limited selection of well-worn debates on a few arbitrarily chosen problems. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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