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volition

/voh-lish-uhn, vuh-/US // voʊˈlɪʃ ən, və- //UK // (vəˈlɪʃən) //

意志,意志力,意愿,志愿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the act of willing, choosing, or resolving; exercise of willing: She left of her own volition.
    • : a choice or decision made by the will.
    • : the power of willing; will.

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Examples

  • If you spot one in your yard, the best option is to let it trundle away of its own volition.

  • Before he was in his teens, on his own volition he had introduced himself to many great artists — Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus and Dizzy Gillespie among them — who were astonished by the young man’s precocious authority.

  • Whether you’re in the category of people who die tomorrow or live another 40 years, to some extent that’s not under your control or volition.

  • Today, as the marketing options are getting narrower based on the disproportionate number of ads run online, learning webinars and online classes are where people go out of their own volition.

  • When would those states have integrated of their own volition, because it was the right thing to do?

  • So women, you see, are not human beings with agency and volition about their sexuality in Huckabee Land.

  • No, she said, she had come to pray at the Kotel of her own volition, no one put her up to it.

  • Normally, dogs and cats and humans seem to be guided by some kind of volition – but of course that may be flattering ourselves.

  • But then you have the women who go into the trade of their volition.

  • The moment that we introduce the operation of human volition and activity, that, too, becomes one of the factors of "survival."

  • The only genuine act of volition is that in which all the obscure forces of our nature take part.

  • He ran not of his own conscious volition; he was killed while bravely advancing; he died while retreating.

  • In so far as Pike protracted this exploration of his own volition, it forms Pt.

  • Should we not say that actions are subject to Necessity, whilst the preliminary volition and reasoning are independent?