Then and there James Otis sounded the call to America to resist the exercise of arbitrary power by royal officers.

时不时地，詹姆斯·奥蒂斯 (James Otis) 向美国发出了抵制皇家官员行使专断权力的号召。

And should this happen, she had no legal rights, no legal redress, except those same drumhead courts of which Tony had spoken so bitterly, those military courts with their arbitrary powers.

如果真的发生这样的事情，那么除了像托尼痛苦地提到过的那种临时法庭和横行霸道的军画裁判之外，她是没有任何合法权利，也不可能得到任何补偿的。

His tragicomic stories act as a form of mythology for the modern industrial age, employing dream logic to explore the relationships between systems of arbitrary power and the individuals caught up in them.

他的悲喜剧故事是现代工业时代神话的一种形式，运用梦幻逻辑来探索专制权力体系与陷入其中的个人之间的关系。

'Loyalty and obedience to wisdom and justice are fine; but it is still finer to defy arbitrary power, unjustly and cruelly used-not on behalf of ourselves, but on behalf of others more helpless'.

'忠诚顺从智慧和正义是好的； 但反抗不公正和残忍地使用的专断权力更好——不是为了我们自己， 而是为了其他更无助的人” 。

Abigail, the ingenious and witty wife of John Adams, wrote to her husband, in March, 1776, that women objected " to all arbitrary power whether of state or males" and demanded political privileges in the new order then being created.

1776 年 3 月，约翰·亚当斯 (John Adams) 的聪明机智的妻子阿比盖尔 (Abigail) 写信给她的丈夫说，妇女反对“无论是国家还是男性的一切专断权力”，并要求在当时正在建立的新秩序中享有政治特权。