My character is much the same as a prism with a great many sides. I am a little introverted and active, a little passionate and arbitrary, a little confident and cowardly.

我的性格就像一面多棱镜，有很多的侧面：既内向又有几分好动，既热情又有些武断，既自信又有点胆小。

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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.

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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.

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Again, this is an arbitrary deadline on a number of moving parts politicians already kicked once from 2010 to 2013.

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