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

• Free will does not mean that you can establish the curriculum.
  个人意愿并不表示你可以制定课程。
• How can free will coexist with fate?
  自由意志和命运如何同时存在？
• A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same.
  自由意志与服从道德规范的意志是一个东西而且是相同的东西。
• He will not destroy the free will of others.
  他不能破坏别人的自由意志。
• 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。
• And then he gave himself to you, of his own free will.
  可是后来，他把他自己给了你，出于他的自由意志。
• Whether you surrender or struggle to free will be your own thoughts.
  至于你是听任还是挣脱，那将是你自己的感想。
• One of the chief elements of tragedy lies in the relation of the free will to necessity.
  构成悲剧的一个主要因素，在于自由意志与必然性之间的关系。
• 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。
• 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？