volition

英 [vəˈlɪʃn]

美 [voʊˈlɪʃn]

n.  意志力; 自愿选择; 自行决断

复数：volitions　

GRE

BNC.20159 / COCA.19937

牛津词典

noun

• 意志力；自愿选择；自行决断
  the power to choose sth freely or to make your own decisions
  1. They left entirely of their own volition (= because they wanted to) .
     他们完全是自愿离开的。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 自愿选择;自行决定
  Yourvolitionis the power you have to decide something for yourself.
  1. We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition...
     我们常常认为我们所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。
  2. He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
     他感觉自己好像被命运掌控，毫无自主选择的余地。
• PHRASE 出于自愿
  If you do somethingofyourown volition, you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it.
  1. Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.
     梅金说库姆斯先生是主动去投案的。

双语例句

• He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
  他感觉自己好像被命运掌控，毫无自主选择的余地。
• Teachers play a part on their own volition as the role of supervisor in the process of education supervision.
  在教育督导的过程中，教师不是被动地接受而是主动地参与了督导，并且具有督导者的角色身份。
• The minister wished it to be known that he had left the cabinet of his own volition.
  那位部长希望公众知道他是自己决定离开内阁的。
• Any man worth his salt wants to get there on his own volition.
  每个称职的男人都希望通过自己的努力来获得成功。
• Remember, Our line has always guard with courage, and volition.
  记住，我们的先人一直都是以勇气和意志在保护着王国。
• Martial education is an important means to exercise volition and enhance national defense notion.
  提出军事教育是锻炼意志，提高国防观念的重要手段。
• There seems no pattern to the attack, no volition to the men.
  进攻看上去没有一点章法；士兵看上去没有一点斗志。
• Leave of your own volition. it's simpler.
  交给你自己的意志，那要更简单。
• The indeterminists say another volition might have occurred in its place;
  非决定论者说，可能出现的是取而代之的另一意志；
• I didn't ask him to go; he went of his own volition.
  我没有要求他去，他是出于自愿的。