"I am confident and hopeful that he will now - getting this clear message from both the House and Senate on the appropriations bill - begin to rethink the appropriateness of an arbitrary timeline for the closing of Guantanamo,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

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。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

In the meantime, what Saussure is doing with this relationship above and below the line is, he is saying that there is an arbitrary relationship between the concept and the sound image.

同时，索绪尔觉得这组关系,也就是线上和线下的这个组合，他说，这是一个任意的组合,在事物和声音形象之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

It's just some bogus language we made up that's kind of English-like, kind of look C-like now that you've seen this syntax, but it was just an arbitrary language.

并不是真正的编程语言,好比某种“伪英语“，或“类C语言“,你现在在语法中看到的就是所谓的伪代码，非常随意。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

And so what I was hinting at earlier when you put semicolons in the wrong place, and then proceed to have curly braces around arbitrary lines of code, you're creating an even more local scope there, which is generally not the right intended behavior.

在之前我暗示了,当你把一个分号放在错误的地方时,然后开始用花括号,括上任意行的代码，你在那里创建了一个局部范围，那个不是故意的行为。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选