Arbitrarily

(adv.) In an arbitrary manner; by will only; despotically; absolutely.

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• They admit variation as a vera causa in one case, they arbitrarily reject it in another, without assigning any distinction in the two cases. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
• But the cruelest habit the modern prophecy-savans have, is that one of coolly and arbitrarily fitting the prophetic shirt on to the wrong man. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• It is my misfortune to be, not so much a man of business, as what the world calls (arbitrarily) a gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Politics, as the contributors to the Congressional Record seem to understand it, is a very limited selection of well-worn debates on a few arbitrarily chosen problems. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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