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

• We all experience various types of experience including perception, imagination, thought, emotion, desire, volition, and action.
  我们都经验到各种不同类型的经验，包括知觉，想象，思想，情感，欲望，意志和行为。
• The overwhelming majority of our intellectuals serve socialism of their own volition.
  我国的知识分子绝大多数是自觉自愿地为社会主义服务的。
• Leave of your own volition. it's simpler.
  交给你自己的意志，那要更简单。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• With her feminine tenderness and pilgrim's volition, she is quietly depicting the potential conflict of society in the historical process.
  她带着女性的柔美和苦行僧般的意志，默默描绘着当下文化在历史进程中的潜在冲突。
• 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。
• From the unconscious, one also fails to take responsibility for their life. ( physiology) without volition or conscious control.
  由于无意识，你也无法为你的生活负责。（生理学）不是有意识或有意识的控制。
• 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。