free-for-all

英 [ˈfriː fər ɔːl]

美 [ˈfriː fər ɔːl]

n.  不加管制; 自由放任; 混战; 众人激烈争辩; 大吵大闹

牛津词典

noun

• 不加管制；自由放任
  a situation in which there are no rules or controls and everyone acts for their own advantage
  1. The lowering of trade barriers has led to a free-for-all among exporters.
     降低贸易壁垒导致出口商各自为政。
• 混战；众人激烈争辩；大吵大闹
  a noisy fight or argument in which a lot of people take part

柯林斯词典

• 可自由参加的活动;众人同时争抢的情形
  Afree-for-allis a situation in which several people or groups are trying to get something for themselves and there are no controls on how they do it.
• 混战;群架;众人都参与的争吵
  Afree-for-allis a disorganized fight or argument which lots of people join in.

英英释义

noun

• a noisy fight in a crowd
  Synonym:brawl

双语例句

• The argument between the two drunks ended in a free-for-all in which about 20 people became involved.
  两个醉汉之间的争论最后发展到由约20人自由参加的讨论。
• The name game has now become a free-for-all, in which the World Bank continues to hold grandmaster status.
  现在，命名的游戏已经向所有人开放，但世行仍然保有大师级的地位。
• Does that mean we are then condemned to a kind of moral free-for-all, in which what is right for you may not be right for me, and nobody is entitled to criticise anyone else's ethics?
  那么这是否意味着我们成了人们谴责的没有道德感的人，对你正确的是对我未必是正确的，谁也没有资格批评别人的道德观？
• The existence of ancient cities excited them, and an archaeological free-for-all began.
  古城的存在让他们兴奋不已，于是掀起了一阵考古热潮。
• This is not the free-for-all capitalism that has been recommended by the current economic theory, and seems to have been accepted as gospel by economic planners, and also many economists, since the Thatcher and Reagan governments.
  这不是当前经济理论推荐的、自撒切尔（thatcher）和里根（reagan）政府以来许多经济规划者和经济学家似乎已当成真理的放任的资本主义。
• The report by the all-party parliamentary group on Central Africa says the general breakdown in state control caused by the war in Congo has created a free-for-all atmosphere being exploited by arms traffickers and local warlords.
  各党派议员中非小组作出的报道称，由于在刚果的战争而造成的国家失控已经给被武器偷运者和当地军阀创造出了他们梦寐以求的混战状态。
• This would result in a free-for-all on wage bargaining.
  这将造成工资谈判上的漫天要价。
• "In a free market, you have a free-for-all and it's the poor who suffers."
  “在自由市场条件下，什么都自由，最后吃亏的还是穷人。”
• Other, smaller, Arctic powers, perhaps sensing their likely weakness in a free-for-all, are already seeking conciliation rather than confrontation.
  其他较小的北极周边国家或许已经察觉到他们在自由混战中的弱势，开始寻求调解而非对抗。
• It can be useful to think of cloud governance by examining its opposite: the free-for-all chaos in which cloud services are used by an organization without any oversight in place.
  考虑云治理时，看看它的反面是有好处的：组织使用云服务时没有任何监管，从而造成一片混乱。