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词汇 arbitrarily
释义 arbitrarily
adverb
uk /ˌɑː.bɪˈtreə.rəl.i/ us /ˌɑːr.bəˈtrer.əl.i/

arbitrarilyadverb (BY CHANCE)


in a way that is based on chance rather than being planned or based on reason:
We made the decision to go to Italy quite arbitrarily.
He arbitrarily decided to take the part.
They just arbitrarily pick a number.
You can't just arbitrarily say that there are going to be 500 more students.
We didn't make these changes arbitrarily, but for a good reason.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Chance and randomness
accident
accident of birth
aleatory
arbitrariness
arbitrary
crapshoot
even money
fluke
fluky
fortuitous
luck
luck into something
more by accident than designidiom
more by luck than judgmentidiom
non-purposive
randomness
serendipitous
serendipitously
sortition
stumble into something

arbitrarilyadverb (UNFAIRLY)


disapproving
in a way that uses personal power unfairly and without considering people's rights and wishes: 专断地;武断地;霸道地
Local officials enforce rules arbitrarily and unreasonably.地方官员专断、不合理地执行规则。
People have been held incommunicado for decades without trial and killed arbitrarily.
The clergy became a ruling class that arbitrarily made decrees affecting people's lives.
The police arrested and detained people arbitrarily.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly
ableism
ableist
agism
agist
Anglocentric
discriminative
discriminatorily
discriminatory
drumhead
elitism
one-sided
one-sidedly
one-sidedness
one-way
othering
two-tier
unbalance
unequal
unequally
uneven

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