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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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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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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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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Moreover, to put such a question off-limits is arbitrary.

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The name-out-of-a-hat approach might seem rather arbitrary for something so important.

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The second reason is that if you can track the success of advertising, especially if you can follow sales leads, then marketing ceases to be just a cost-centre, with an arbitrary budget allocated to it.

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