free will

英 [ˌfriː ˈwɪl]

美 [ˌfriː ˈwɪl]

n.  自由意志

法律

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习惯用语

n.

of your own free will
• 自愿
  because you want to do sth rather than because sb has told or forced you to do it
• She left of her own free will.
  她是自愿离开的。

牛津词典

noun

• 自由意志
  the power to make your own decisions without being controlled by God or fate

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 自由意志
  If you believe infree will, you believe that people have a choice in what they do and that their actions have not been decided in advance by God or by any other power.
  1. ...the free will of the individual.
     个人的自由意志
• PHRASE 出于自愿;出于自由选择地
  If you do somethingofyourown free will, you do it by choice and not because you are forced to do it.
  1. Would Bethany return of her own free will, as she had promised?
     贝萨妮会像她承诺的那样自愿回来吗？

英英释义

noun

• the power of making free choices unconstrained by external agencies
  Synonym:discretion

双语例句

• All in free will, all by choice.
  一切都有自由意志，一切都有选择的权利。
• Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
  我们最理想的前途是，美国将继续出于自愿提供这种服务。
• In essence, you are saying that people do not really have free will.
  实质上，你是在说人们并不真正拥有自由意志。
• If so, then machines and humans could both have the capacity for free will.
  如果确实如此，那么人类和机器就都有能力产生自由意志。
• He will not destroy the free will of others.
  他不能破坏别人的自由意志。
• In a smaller field this was the drama of free will and creation.
  在更小的范围，这是自由意志和创造的戏剧。
• When you walk through that door, it's an act of free will.
  当你走进这个门的时候，这是自由意志的选择。
• Of all our abilities, it is free will that truly makes us unique.
  在我们所有的能力当中，真的是自由意志使我们变得独特么？
• If we have free will, where in the evolutionary tree did it develop?
  如果我们有自由意志，在进化树上它如何发展？
• People have free will and no one can or should control another person.
  人生来平等，没有人可以或是应该被其他的人控制。