People complain that decisions to approve or deny a permit are often arbitrary rather than based on fixed criteria.

人们抱怨批准或拒绝许可的决定往往是随意的，而不是基于固定的标准。

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These scientists, for reasons that are mostly arbitrary, either just missed getting a research grant or just barely made it.

由于一些原因，这些科学家要么是错失了研究经费，要么只是勉强成功了，而这其中的原因大多是随机的。

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So far, machines have a pretty hard time emulating creativity, arbitrary enough not to be predicted by a computer, and yet more than simple randomness.

到目前为止，机器在模仿创造力方面有相当困难的时间，它们的随机性足以让计算机无法预测，但也不仅仅是简单的随机性。

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Flournoy says the withdrawal date is not arbitrary and Mr.Obama did not, as she put it,pull the timeline "out of a hat."

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Here you've got a red light which doesn't seem to enter into this sense of the arbitrary and differential.

这里，红灯看起来并没有,任意性和差异性。

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It's a measure of Milton's ambition and his intellectual courage that enables him to set out to justify a God who can inflict upon his creatures such a seemingly arbitrary act of licensing.

就是弥尔顿的雄心和他智慧的勇气,让他去证实上帝是能强加给他创造的世界,这样看起来专横的控制的行为。

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An inauguration date of January 20 can seem arbitrary when a country is facing its worst financial crisis since the Great Depression.

NPR: Can The Global Crisis Wait For A New President?

Libya continues to be seen as a high-risk country with an arbitrary leader and a bewildering bureaucracy.

ECONOMIST: Libya

Electoral reform in Scotland and Wales has achieved its object of ensuring that a party without a majority of the votes cannot claim the arbitrary power of a sovereign majority, though the prime minister appears to have been surprised to discover that this was the case.

BBC: Russell: The state remains the same