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

• 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。
• 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。
• They debated the matter of free will.
  他们辩论过自由意志的问题。
• 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。
• What we think of as "free will" is actually found in the subconscious.
  我们所认为的“自由意志”实际上是建立在潜意识的基础之上的。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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？
• How can free will coexist with fate?
  自由意志和命运如何同时存在？
• 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。