volition

英 [vəˈlɪʃn]

美 [voʊˈlɪʃn]

n.  意志力; 自愿选择; 自行决断

复数：volitions　

GRE

BNC.20159 / COCA.19937

牛津词典

noun

• 意志力；自愿选择；自行决断
  the power to choose sth freely or to make your own decisions
  1. They left entirely of their own volition (= because they wanted to) .
     他们完全是自愿离开的。

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 自愿选择;自行决定
  Yourvolitionis the power you have to decide something for yourself.
  1. We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition...
     我们常常认为我们所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。
  2. He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
     他感觉自己好像被命运掌控，毫无自主选择的余地。
• PHRASE 出于自愿
  If you do somethingofyourown volition, you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it.
  1. Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.
     梅金说库姆斯先生是主动去投案的。

双语例句

• Remember, Our line has always guard with courage, and volition.
  记住，我们的先人一直都是以勇气和意志在保护着王国。
• We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition
  我们常常认为我们所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。
• He gave up acting of his own volition.
  他决定放弃采取行动。
• From the unconscious, one also fails to take responsibility for their life. ( physiology) without volition or conscious control.
  由于无意识，你也无法为你的生活负责。（生理学）不是有意识或有意识的控制。
• We all experience various types of experience including perception, imagination, thought, emotion, desire, volition, and action.
  我们都经验到各种不同类型的经验，包括知觉，想象，思想，情感，欲望，意志和行为。
• ( physiology) controlled by individual volition.
  （生理学）由个人意志控制的。
• He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
  他感觉自己好像被命运掌控，毫无自主选择的余地。
• Martial education is an important means to exercise volition and enhance national defense notion.
  提出军事教育是锻炼意志，提高国防观念的重要手段。
• The minister wished it to be known that he had left the cabinet of his own volition.
  那位部长希望公众知道他是自己决定离开内阁的。
• Leave of your own volition. it's simpler.
  交给你自己的意志，那要更简单。