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

• 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。
• They debated the matter of free will.
  他们辩论过自由意志的问题。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• You have free will and the God-given power to create.
  你拥有自由意志和上帝赐予的创造一切的能力。
• Ignoring the facts of dualism and radical free will is anti-empirical and unscientific.
  无视二元论和激进自由论的事实是和经验和科学相悖的。
• 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。