arbitrary
音标：
英音/ ˈɑːbɪtrəri / 美音/ ˈɑːrbɪtreri /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Mr Blinken has said the US is exploring ways to bring home “many other Americans who are being detained in different parts of the world in an arbitrary fashion”.
布林肯表示，美国正在探索如何将“许多其他在世界不同地区被任意拘留的美国人”带回家。
—BBC
Activists say Beijing often uses this secretive and arbitrary form of detention against those accused of national security offences.
活动人士表示，北京经常对那些被指控犯有国家安全罪的人使用这种秘密和任意的拘留方式。
—BBC
“I’m turning up the heat on the Biden administration to pull the plug on their ridiculous regulations and make Washington bureaucrats think twice before imposing arbitrary rules on Americans,” Ms. Ernst said.
“我正在向拜登政府施压，要求他们终止他们荒谬的规定，让华盛顿官僚在对美国人强加任意规定之前三思而后行，”恩斯特女士说。
—Washington Times
基本释意：
adjective
based on or subject to individual discretion or preference or sometimes impulse or caprice
任意的，随心所欲的；专横的，武断的
同义词：
没有找到同义词
短释义：
Even though arbitrary comes from a word meaning “judge” (arbiter), that doesn’t mean judges are always fair. Calling a decision-maker arbitrary is usually a negative thing, suggesting the person is making rules based on whim rather than justice. A coach who selects starting players arbitrarily isn’t strictly applying a rule; he could just be picking names out of a hat.
任意的东西看起来像是随机选择的，而不是遵循一致的规则。球队成员不喜欢他们的教练使用完全武断的方法来挑选首发球员。
长释义：
Even though arbitrary comes from a word meaning “judge” (arbiter), that doesn’t mean judges are always fair. Calling a decision-maker arbitrary is usually a negative thing, suggesting the person is making rules based on whim rather than justice. A coach who selects starting players arbitrarily isn’t strictly applying a rule; he could just be picking names out of a hat.
尽管任意性来自一个意思是“法官”（仲裁者）的词，但这并不意味着法官总是公平的。称决策者专断通常是一件负面的事情，表明这个人是根据心血来潮而不是正义制定规则的。教练随意选择首发球员并不是严格执行规则；而是在执行规则。他可能只是凭空捏造名字。
文学例句：
Whether public or private, accounting is a peculiar blend of facts and arbitrary procedures which usually require decoding.
无论是公共的还是私人的，会计都是事实和任意程序的特殊结合，通常需要解码。
—Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos
If Tennessee had a temperament, it took after the dark personality of the world, with a taste for arbitrary punishment.
如果说田纳西州有一种气质，那就是它模仿了世界的黑暗个性，喜欢任意惩罚。
—The Underground Railroad: A Novel by Colson Whitehead
People are also guided by seemingly arbitrary cultural preferences, such as considering fish either delicacies or taboo.
人们还受到看似任意的文化偏好的引导，例如将鱼视为美味佳肴或禁忌。
—Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared M. Diamond
词源：
arbitrary (adj.)c. 1400, “deciding by one’s own discretion, depending on one’s judgment,” from Latin arbitrarius “of arbitration,” hence “depending on the will, uncertain,” from arbiter (see arbiter). The meaning in English gradually descended to “capricious, ungoverned by reason or rule, despotic” (1640s). Related: Arbitrarily; arbitrariness.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
任意的（形容词）c. 1400，“由一个人自己的自由裁量权决定，取决于一个人的判断”，来自拉丁语 arriarius“仲裁”，因此“取决于意愿，不确定”，来自仲裁者（见仲裁者）。英语中的意思逐渐下降为“任性、不受理性或规则支配、专制”（1640年代）。相关：任意；任意性。相关条目及更多
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