Volition
[və'lɪʃ(ə)n] or [və'lɪʃən]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) the act of making a choice; 'followed my father of my own volition'.
(noun.) the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention; 'the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt'- George Meredith.
杰西整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The act of willing or choosing; the act of forming a purpose; the exercise of the will.
(n.) The result of an act or exercise of choosing or willing; a state of choice.
(n.) The power of willing or determining; will.
錄入:莱斯特
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Willing, exercise of the will.
布兰卡德錄入
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Will, choice, preference, determination, purpose, deliberation, freewill
ANT:Force, fate, necessity, mechanism, compulsion, predestination, coercion
整理:纳特
解釋/意思:
n. act of willing or choosing: the exercise of the will: the power of determining.—adjs. Voli′tient (rare) willing; Voli′tional Voli′tionary.—adv. Voli′tionally.—adjs. Voli′tionless; Vol′itive having power to will: expressing a wish.
珍妮特手打
例句/造句/用法:
- You've got to lapse out before you can know what sensual reality is, lapse into unknowingness, and give up your volition. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Tell me one thing of thy own volition. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Creation, annihilation, motion, reason, volition; all these may arise from one another, or from any other object we can imagine. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Almost of its own volition, my dagger flew up above that putrid heart. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- The new relations depend upon a new volition. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- Now and of thy own volition. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- The sensory elements of consciousness are involved, however, in perception, memory, volition, reason, and sentiment, as they are in imagination. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- Perhaps it was the absence of volition. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Tell me now of thy own volition. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- There was a numbness upon him, a numbness either of unborn, absent volition, or of atrophy. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- To move hand or foot, or even so much as one finger, would have been an exertion beyond the powers of either volition or motion. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- Because you want to have everything in your own volition, your deliberate voluntary consciousness. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- In which-ever way you take it, you find only certain passions, motives, volitions and thoughts. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
手打:苏珊