a person with the power or influence to make judgements and decide what will be done or accepted
The law is the final arbiter of what is considered obscene.
何谓猥亵最终由法律裁决。
an arbiter of taste/style/fashion
鉴赏╱款式╱时装权威
1.仲裁人,调停人,公断人
2.裁决者,决定者
1.a person or organization that has official power to settle disagreements
2.someone whose opinions about a subject have a lot of influence
1.Her father was an arbiter-general in the Old Republic, and her mother was a governor on her native Chandrila.
她的父亲是旧共和国的总仲裁官，母亲是母星钱德里拉的总督。
2.Court, as final arbiter of the Constitution, can overturn legislative ACTS or executive orders if it finds them to be unconstitutional.
身为宪法最后仲裁者的最高法院，如果发现法令或是行政命令违宪，可以将其推翻。
3.The problem cries out for a long-term, open-minded, systematic search, with nature as the only arbiter of what is or is not? likely.
这个问题呼唤一个长期、放而系统的研究，伴随着什么可能是或者不是的仅有的权威的论断之特点。
4.And I'm certainly aware that I would be the last person to be the arbiter of these.
而且我已经确信我将是做这类事情的最后一个人。
5."The artist community is unlikely to accept that the record company is to be the arbiter of what is or is not a suitable state of health. "
“艺人团地不太可能接受唱片公司作为一个仲裁者，来判断自己的健康与否，”他补充道。
6.We need an outside arbiter to ask one of the machines to stand down.
我们需要一个外部仲裁程序来要求其中一个节点暂时停止活动。
7.Surely, the bank's policymaking board would have been the better arbiter.
可以肯定的是，央行的政策制定委员会将会是更好的仲裁者。
8.But Zoilus and Cicero are two different persons. Cicero is an arbiter in thought, just as Brutus is an arbiter by the sword.
可是佐伊尔和西塞罗是两回事，西塞罗用思想来裁判，布鲁图斯以利剑来裁判。
9.The bank remains the ultimate arbiter regarding issuing, incremental fees, and timing of funds transfer.
毕竟银行在发行钞票，增加费用以及选择资金转移时间上仍享有最终的决定权。
10.linguists have given us so far a master arbiter like the English writer Henry Watson Fowler. A battle appears won, but the conflict goes on.
Fowler）那样为我们带来权威的英语指导。一场争论似乎已尘埃落定，但矛盾和分歧仍会层出不穷。