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 arbitrary ['ɑ:bitrәri]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 任意的, 恣意的, 专制的, 反复无常的

[经] 比例附加运价


  1. The choice of players for the team seems completely arbitrary.
    对队员的挑选似乎完全是主观决定的。
  2. Most presidents in this African country are arbitrary rulers.
    这个非洲国家的总统大多数是专横的统治者。
  3. I have no idea of what is in fashion so my choice is quite arbitrary.
    我不知道什么时兴，因此我的选择是非常随意的。


arbitrary
[ adj ]
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
<adj.all>
an arbitrary decisionthe arbitrary rule of a dictator
an arbitrary penalty
of arbitrary size and shape
an arbitrary choice
arbitrary division of the group into halves


Arbitrary \Ar"bi*tra*ry\, a. [L. arbitrarius, fr. arbiter: cf.
F. arbitraire. See {Arbiter}.]
1. Depending on will or discretion; not governed by any fixed
rules; as, an arbitrary decision; an arbitrary punishment.

It was wholly arbitrary in them to do so. --Jer.
Taylor.

Rank pretends to fix the value of every one, and is
the most arbitrary of all things. --Landor.

2. Exercised according to one's own will or caprice, and
therefore conveying a notion of a tendency to abuse the
possession of power.

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the
ruins of liberty abused licentiousness.
--Washington.

3. Despotic; absolute in power; bound by no law; harsh and
unforbearing; tyrannical; as, an arbitrary prince or
government. --Dryden.

{Arbitrary constant}, {Arbitrary function} (Math.), a
quantity of function that is introduced into the solution
of a problem, and to which any value or form may at will
be given, so that the solution may be made to meet special
requirements.

{Arbitrary quantity} (Math.), one to which any value can be
assigned at pleasure.

  1. Instead there are sudden, arbitrary switches for variety's sake, with colourful patches which hark directly back to Stravinsky, and for emphasis some blatant Hollywood effects (scored with unblinking crudity).
  2. Some states now end the right to sue after an arbitrary number of years even if the injury could not have been detected during that period.
  3. Officially designated by both unions and producers as "endangered theaters," they are victims of an arbitrary division between Broadway and off-Broadway.
  4. "It is the requirements of a good treaty and not some arbitrary deadline that will determine the timetable," Reagan said.
  5. He was slipped across the border to Saudi Arabia. Two other young men, members of the big, extended family, were picked up in the rash of arbitrary arrests just before the ground war began and they haven't been heard from since.
  6. The agency said Thomas James Associates generated about $4.5 million in undisclosed excessive mark-ups by purchasing securities from customers at arbitrary prices and reselling them to other customers at arbitrary prices.
  7. The agency said Thomas James Associates generated about $4.5 million in undisclosed excessive mark-ups by purchasing securities from customers at arbitrary prices and reselling them to other customers at arbitrary prices.
  8. It is not clear he will be allowed to succeed because of divisions in the cabinet. In addition, corruption, along with the arbitrary behaviour of the authorities, is discouraging new investment and the emergence of small businesses.
  9. Although the ruling party has made some effort to separate its work from that of the government and replace arbitrary decision-making with laws, the government remains mainly the executor of decisions made by a few top party leaders.
  10. It also raised questions whether the agency under Commissioner David Kessler has become arbitrary and capricious, demanding too much of industry too quickly in its new zeal to enforce the law.
  11. This arbitrary reaction caused the "masses to come to hate" the revolutionary commitees, he said.
  12. Because a system of governance based on the arbitrary whims of the corrupt individuals who hold the reins of power has reached the point where it is choking every aspect of our lives.
  13. The statement by the human rights group accompanied a 73-page report detailing arbitrary arrests and torture of hundreds of people in and around Oinam village in northeast Manipur state in 1987.
  14. This will give you an idea of the arbitrary nature of the rules laid down by parliament: they do not purport to be equitable or logical. No legal responsibility can be accepted by the Financial Times for the answers given in these columns.
  15. Maybe part of it is being reared in a country that doesn't cut them off at the ankles at age 12 or 14 for not passing some arbitrary, palm-sweating exams.
  16. He cautioned the SEC against imposing an "arbitrary" rule on all markets.
  17. Iranian authorities have carried out summary executions, arbitrary arrests, and torture on a troubling scale despite the cease-fire in the war with Iraq, a new U.N. report says.
  18. During the recession the law is causing arbitrary injustice which ought to be remedied by the next government.
  19. He still owes them an apology.' Educationalists suggested that the debate about standards had been arbitrary.
  20. Speed must be the essence of whatever system is put in the place of the absurdly expensive and arbitrary circus that now dictates the fate of those involved in City and business scandals.
  21. "According to the United Nations, executions resulting from summary procedures denying the right of legal appeal and omitting other fair safeguards constitute `the arbitrary deprivation of life," it said in a statement received in Rangoon today.
  22. AIDS advocates were driven to fury because their persuasive judgments about personal levels of acceptable risk kept bumping up against the FDA's inherently arbitrary safety standard.
  23. "I believe these proposals would foster arbitrary government, throw a dagger at private and economic liberties and subvert the rule of law," said Fein.
  24. And Scott K. Goodell, senior vice president of American Centennial, says that Mr. Hoffman's numbers were "picked out of thin air" and that he was making "arbitrary accounting entries for obligations that will take years to come due.
  25. In June, the American Horse Protection Association obtained a lower court ruling that the department's regulations allowing the lightweight chains and rollers had been adopted in an arbitrary manner.
  26. In 1987 Amnesty International, the London-based human rights organization, said it had received "increasing reports of arbitrary arrests, torture and extrajudicial executions" of tribespeople in the Chittagong Hill Tracts by Bangladeshi troops.
  27. Seven dissidents went on a hunger strike last week, however, to protest what they said were arbitrary decisions by police over who receives a passport.
  28. The contention came in the 13th day of a hearing in U.S. District Court on Keating's lawsuit, which alleges that the government takeover of the Irvine, Calif., S&L was capricious and arbitrary.
  29. So he was far from being a closeted novelist. However, his arbitrary world works best in novel form: private imaginings build an architectural vision rivalled only by JRR Tolkein's middle-earth mythologies.
  30. One special danger of vague laws is that they leave people at risk of arbitrary prosecution.
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