| 单词 | random |
| 释义 | random (once / 619 pages) adj Something that’s random is lacking in order, plan, or purpose. It happens totally by chance, like the random picking of lottery numbers or unplanned random acts of kindness. Sometime in the 1980s, teenage slang hijacked the adjective random and tried to turn it into a word meaning weird, odd or out of place. As in "Dude! That guy wearing purple spandex at the party was so random!" But don't fall for it. Something that’s truly random is totally governed by chance and has no specific pattern, like choosing a card at random from a magician’s deck. WORD FAMILYrandom: nonrandom, randomise, randomize, randomly, randomness+/randomise: randomisation, randomised/randomize: randomization, randomized USAGE EXAMPLESSuch a minor delay may be caused by any minimal distraction: a sudden noise, a quick glance at the phone or a random thought. The Guardian(Jan 02, 2017) Some people jumped into the Bosphorus to save themselves after the attacker began shooting at random just over an hour into the new year. Reuters(Jan 02, 2017) Ask a random sampling of Washingtonians and you’ll find that many want to be closer to nature. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) adj lacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance a random choice bombs fell at random random movements Syn|Ant ergodic positive recurrent aperiodic state of stochastic systems; tending in probability to a limiting form that is independent of the initial conditions haphazard, hit-or-missdependent upon or characterized by chance stochasticbeing or having a random variable nonrandom not random purposivehaving or showing or acting with a purpose or design |
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