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Random Lacking Governed Chance That’s Totally Rændəm Room

Front random
Pron ['rændəm]
Back 【RANDOM】
The room was filled with a random selection of furniture.
这房间堆满了随便选择的家具。
【重点词汇】
random adj. 随便的 反: deliberate
random selection: 随机选择, 杂乱选择
random select: 随机选择
Vocab
randomlacking any definite plan or order or purpose; governed by or depending on chance

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.

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