Random
['rændəm]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance; 'a random choice'; 'bombs fell at random'; 'random movements' .
編輯:勒罗伊--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) Force; violence.
(n.) A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
(n.) Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.
(n.) The direction of a rake-vein.
(a.) Going at random or by chance; done or made at hazard, or without settled direction, aim, or purpose; hazarded without previous calculation; left to chance; haphazard; as, a random guess.
手打:珀西瓦尔
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Chance, casual, fortuitous.
編輯:默里
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Haphazard, stray, chance, wild, aimless, purposeless, unpremeditated, casual,vague, accidental
ANT:Steady, aimed, intended, regular, controlled, purposed, intentional,deliberate, designed, normal, systematic
錄入:昆西
解釋/意思:
adj. done or uttered at haphazard: left to chance: aimless—(obs.) Ran′don.—n. something done without aim chance—now only in phrase At random haphazard.—adv. Ran′domly without direction: by chance.
編輯:帕梅拉
例句/造句/用法:
- They talked and prattled at random, he always as if he were well, just the same as when he was going about. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Mr. Winsor's absurd statements--in the truth of which he potently believed--and the wild, random manner of making them known, excited much ridicule and opposition. 弗雷德里克·科利爾·貝克維爾. 偉大的事實.
- None of those present ventured to make any remark on this assertion, although all felt that it was merely a random guess, based on the sanguine dream of an inventor. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- But the same hand which has cast the celestial spheres in space, has traced their course in the heavens, and does not allow them to wander at random to disturb and destroy each other. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- But when the new element requires especial attention, random reaction is the sole recourse unless abstraction is brought into play. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is not fair, said Emma, in a whisper; mine was a random guess. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- Human Justice rushed before me in novel guise, a red, random beldame, with arms akimbo. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I think they must have been taken out at random, for I am sure I tasted aniseed water, anchovy sauce, and salad dressing. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- As matter of fact, the native activities develop, in contrast with random and capricious exercise, through the uses to which they are put. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is customary to frown upon such aimless random activity, treating it as willful mischief or carelessness or lawlessness. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- It is antithetical to random and ill-considered action,--ill-considered signifying ill-adapted. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- Until he had mastered the principles of zoology, his efforts to make anything out of them would be random and blind. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- And gradually, what I had done at random, seemed to shape itself into a purpose, Mr. Barsad. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- There were no walls, no fences, no hedges--nothing to secure a man's possessions but these random heaps of stones. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Nor is the spirit of the laboratory work represented in the following dialogue overheard between two alleged carpenters picked up at random to help on a hurry job. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- He had not heard her divorce spoken of since Janey's first random allusion to it, and had dismissed the tale as unfounded gossip. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I have sustained my own idea of Roderick Random for a month at a stretch, I verily believe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Piano playing is not hitting the keys at random. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
- I mention these experiments at random. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- A certain doubt came up in my mind whether Sergeant Cuff's last random shot might not have hit the mark. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
編輯:帕梅拉