Involuntary
[ɪn'vɒlənt(ə)rɪ] or [ɪn'vɑləntɛri]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) not subject to the control of the will; 'involuntary manslaughter'; 'involuntary servitude'; 'an involuntary shudder'; 'It (becoming a hero) was involuntary. They sank my boat'- John F.Kennedy .
(adj.) controlled by the autonomic nervous system; without conscious control; 'involuntary muscles'; 'gave an involuntary start' .
杜安整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Not having will or the power of choice.
(a.) Not under the influence or control of the will; not voluntary; as, the involuntary movements of the body; involuntary muscle fibers.
(a.) Not proceeding from choice; done unwillingly; reluctant; compulsory; as, involuntary submission.
整理:露丝
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Instinctive, automatic, blind, independent of the will.[2]. Unwilling, reluctant, compulsory, against one's will.
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同義詞及反義詞：
[See AMPLE_and_BROAD]
朱厄尔錄入
解釋/意思:
adj. not voluntary: not having the power of will or choice: not done willingly: not chosen.—adv. Invol′untarily.—n. Invol′untariness.
錄入:威廉姆斯
例句/造句/用法:
- It has been involuntary, and I will not encourage it. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- An involuntary comparison between Mr. Lennox and Mr. Thornton arose in her mind. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- As it was, I met him with the most resolute politeness, apologised for my involuntary intrusion (which he called a trespass,) and left the grounds. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- A general shout was of course the signal of his having woke up; and his involuntary inquiry of 'What's the matter? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- And these involuntary starts of fancy were, after all, but the setting of a picture in which three people kept before him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He now and then slided into my lady, instead of ma'am, as an involuntary acknowledgment of Mrs. Sparsit's personal dignity and claims to reverence. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- There was an involuntary tremour on Rebecca's voice, and a tenderness of accent, which perhaps betrayed more than she would willingly have expressed. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- My sorrow may bear involuntary witness against you at the judgement Throne; but my angry thoughts or my reproaches never will, I know! 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Thank you: I shall do: I have no broken bones,--only a sprain; and again he stood up and tried his foot, but the result extorted an involuntary Ugh! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- They extend not beyond a mistake of fact, which moralists have not generally supposed criminal, as being perfectly involuntary. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- I gave an involuntary half start at hearing the _alias_: I had forgotten my new name. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- She had grown thin and pale, her eyes filled with involuntary tears, her voice was broken and low. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- On Carry Fisher's part the withdrawal was perhaps not quite involuntary. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Secondly, I would have anyone give me a reason, why virtue and vice may not be involuntary, as well as beauty and deformity. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- This distance, I argued, is accidental--it is involuntary; patienceand it will vanish. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Dr. Cruger saw a continual procession of bees thus crawling out of their involuntary bath. 查理斯·達爾文. 物種起源.
- The next minute her face fell as she glanced about the empty room, adding, with an involuntary sigh, Yes, I am glad, but how I shall miss him. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The involuntary look of horror, fright and aversion, with which the girl regarded him, did not escape his eye. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- And is not this involuntary deprivation caused either by theft, or force, or enchantment? 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- It is a fulfilment--the great dark knowledge you can't have in your head--the dark involuntary being. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He said it with an involuntary shudder. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- His was an involuntary confidence, an irrepressible effusion to a soothing friendnot an application to a parent. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- An involuntary shudder passed over both of us. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- His actions all seemed involuntary. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- To that point went every leisure moment which her father's claims on her allowed, and every moment of involuntary absence of mind. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- My involuntary start occasioned her to lay her hand upon my arm. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
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