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

• Only those who use Free Will to choose Love, Peace and Harmony will flourish in the New Reality.
  只有那些使用自由意志选择爱，和平，和谐的人才会在新的现实中绽放。
• I can't change your free will, but I can let you down to hell.
  我无法左右你的自由意志，所以你就抱著你的信念下地狱吧！
• 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？
• The philosophical problems of chance and of free will are closely related.
  或然性和自由意志这两个哲学问题是紧密相关的。
• Our ideal of the future is that she should continue to render that service of her own free will.
  我们最理想的前途是，美国将继续出于自愿提供这种服务。
• On this point you have the free will and the choice.
  在这一点上，你们有自由的意志和选择。
• 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。
• 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。
• In essence, you are saying that people do not really have free will.
  实质上，你是在说人们并不真正拥有自由意志。
• Hard-determinism assumes that free will and moral responsibility are incompatible with a universe in which all events are caused.
  刚性决定论认为，在所有事件都有成因的宇宙之中，自由意志和道德责任这两者是格格不入的。