| 英语单词 | arbitrarily |
|---|---|
| 英美音标 | 英 [ˌɑːbɪ'trɛərɪlɪ] 美 [ˌɑrbə'trɛrili] |
| 中文释义 | adv.任意地;武断地;专横地 |
| 英语例句 | (1) Bondsmen may withhold their services arbitrarily. (2) Physical properties are, in turn, arbitrarily subdivided into many categories. (3) Arbitrarily dismissing the direct link between increasing sexual promiscuity and the rapid spread of sexually transmitted diseases would be foolhardy. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 保人可以任意地不提供服务。 (2) 物理特性,可以被任意地分为许多种类。 (3) 武断地无视性乱行为的增多和性传播疾病的迅速蔓延之间的直接联系是鲁莽的。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Something said or done arbitrarily, is done randomly or without much thought, like when you arbitrarily eat whatever happens to be on the buffet table at your cousin's wedding. |
| vocabulary扩展 | The adverb arbitrarily describes something that's done haphazardly, based on random chance or on your own whim of the moment. If you go to a movie and know nothing about anything that's playing, you might arbitrarily choose one — based on the titles, the look of the posters, or on nothing at all. When there's not much reason behind your actions, they're done arbitrarily. |
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