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

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

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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So an arbitrary taking of property would be a violation of the law of nature and would be illegitimate.

所以任意掠夺他人财产,就侵犯了自然法，就是非法的。

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This refers to a tendency for people in making quantitative judgments to subconsciously have their judgments anchored by some arbitrary stimulus.

指的是,人们在做定量估测时,会受外界影响,将某些特定数值作为起始值,而起始值像锚一样制约着估测值

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You know, if you want to measure the potential energy of something in a gravitational field, you have to define the zero somewhere, right, because it's arbitrary. You can set it anywhere you want. It's the same with enthalpy.

你知道，如果你想测量重力场,中某种东西的势能，你需要，在某处定义一个零点，对吧？,因为势能的值是任意的,你可以把它设定在。

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Their relationship is necessary but, as we'll see in a minute, arbitrary, and each sign is like that.

这种关系十分必要，但是它又有任意性。

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This lets me have a way of representing things that could be arbitrary in size. And some of these things could be huge, if they're themselves lists.

有些可能很大，如,果他们本身就是列表,那问题来了。

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And those arbitrary mappings, as we come to learn them, make up the vocabulary of a language.

当我们掌握了这些任意映射时,这些任意映射便组成了某种语言的词汇

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And the truth of whether a book should or should not be censored is something that's come about through the diligent effort of a group, rather than a single arbitrary judge like the state licenser.

但一本书是否真正被控制,是一堆人努力的结果，而不是政府出版管理处的人员专横的决定。

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Is not any so-called list of great thinkers ? or great texts likely to be simply arbitrary and tell us more about what such a ! list excludes than what it includes?

这种所谓的伟大思想家,或巨著清单不会太过于武断吗,它告诉我们的应是,遗漏多于涵蕴吧？

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But so long as there is a non-arbitrary rule of law, then it's permissible.

但只要有一部非专制的法律，那这就是允许的。

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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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Later in the term, we'll see why we have this syntax and why it wasn't just a totally arbitrary Python brain-dead decision by the designers of Python, and many languages before Python, but in fact is a pretty sensible thing.

这个学期的晚些时候,我们会去学学我们学这些语法的原因,以及这些语法其实并不是,和以前其他语言的设计者，一拍脑子做出的决定，实际上制定这些语法其实是相当明智的。

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And what this means is we can use --take any arbitrary idea in the world, the idea of a chair or a story or a country, and make a sound or a sign to connect to it.

符号任意性是指,我们可以拿来世间任何想法,比如椅子,故事,或是国家,再发明一种声音或符号来与之相联系

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The absolute number that you assign to it is something that's arbitrary. You have to set what the zero is. And so there's a well-understood convention for what the zero is.

你指定给它的绝对值是有任意性的,你需要设定零点的位置,因此有一个经过充分研究的,关于设定零点的约定。

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What does count as a violation is an arbitrary taking because that would essentially say, not only to Bill Gates, but to everyone, there is no rule of law.

只有肆意掠夺才算侵犯自然权利,因为从本质上说，那不仅侵犯了比尔·盖茨，还侵犯了其他人，那样就毫无法治可言。

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Disappointment number two, once there is a legitimate government based on consent, the only limits for Locke are limits on arbitrary takings of life or of liberty or of property.

失望的第二点，一旦经过同意建立合法政府后，对洛克来说它唯一的限制,就是不能肆意夺取生命或自由或财产。

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