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

• 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。
• 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。
• The two-way choice system as a reform of the present job assignment system for college graduates means that graduates could choose employers and employers could choose graduates, both of their own free will.
  作为对大学毕业生分配制度的改革，双向选择制度意味着，毕业生可以选择用人单位，用人单位也可以选择毕业生，双方均出于自愿。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Of all our abilities, it is free will that truly makes us unique.
  在我们所有的能力当中，真的是自由意志使我们变得独特么？
• 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。
• How can free will coexist with fate?
  自由意志和命运如何同时存在？