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volunteered

/vol-uhn-teer/US // ˌvɒl ənˈtɪər //UK // (ˌvɒlənˈtɪə) //

志愿的,自愿参加的,志愿服务,自愿

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who voluntarily offers himself or herself for a service or undertaking.
    • : a person who performs a service willingly and without pay.
    • : Military. a person who enters the service voluntarily rather than through conscription or draft, especially for special or temporary service rather than as a member of the regular or permanent army.
    • : Law. a person whose actions are not founded on any legal obligation so to act.a person who intrudes into a matter that does not concern him or her, as a person who pays the debt of another where he or she is neither legally nor morally bound to do so and has no interest to protect in making the payment.
    • : Agriculture.Also volunteer plant . a plant that springs up spontaneously, without being seeded, planted, or cultivated by a person: We didn't plant any watermelons this year, but look at all the volunteers from last year's crop.
    • : Volunteer. a native or inhabitant of Tennessee.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or being a volunteer or volunteers: a volunteer fireman.
    • : Agriculture. growing without being seeded, planted, or cultivated by a person; springing up spontaneously: volunteer tomatoes.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to offer oneself for some service or undertaking.
    • : to enter service or enlist as a volunteer.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to offer for some undertaking or purpose.
    • : to give, bestow, or perform voluntarily: to volunteer a song.
    • : to say, tell, or communicate voluntarily: to volunteer an explanation.
    • : to promise the services of without having asked if it is something they actually can or want to do: He volunteered me to sand and paint the bottom of the boat, and I don’t have the slightest interest in sanding, painting, or boating.

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Examples

  • In a statement, Pfizer’s CEO, Albert Bourla, said the vaccine’s development took “248 long days and nights,” involving 43,661 volunteers at 150 locations in the US, Turkey, and South Africa.

  • Over the past eight months, the pair — now known around the small town as “the cookie guys” — and their 100 volunteer bakers have made more than 15,500 cookies.

  • All staffers are volunteering to return, according to the school system.

  • We decided to allow any of our 20,000 employees to take up to 10% of their time to volunteer on innovation accelerated by the lab.

  • Cindy Candia, a volunteer with Angry Tias and Abuelas, a group that assists migrants and asylum seekers in the Rio Grande Valley, previously ran a local PFLAG chapter with her husband.

  • His regular partner was late that day, and Police Officer Wenjian Liu volunteered to fill in.

  • Finally, Ciolino volunteered a lawyer, Jack Rimland, to represent Simon in court.

  • Jackson volunteered this information to detectives, just before the trial, in the mistaken belief that it would help Wise.

  • The sisters, who volunteered for relief work in addition to ministerial service through their order, were extraordinary women.

  • More than a dozen from Texas colleges and universities volunteered to take part in reviewing texts this past summer.

  • "I'll look in the bar," I volunteered, remembering the kid had left with more of a roll than Meadows had now.

  • The third, a young man, was confined for having volunteered as chaplain in a Union regiment.

  • "Oh, they'll maybe put Aggie Lowrieson on your side o' the table," he volunteered, glad that at last she had shown some feeling.

  • This work was turned over to women and children, while young boy scouts came and volunteered to work on the farms.

  • O'Toole volunteered to go, but the boatmen would not take him, evidently having had their orders.