free will

英 [ˌfriː ˈwɪl]

美 [ˌfriː ˈwɪl]

n. 自由意志

法律

Collins.1

习惯用语

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

How can free will coexist with fate?
自由意志和命运如何同时存在？
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？
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。
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。
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 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。
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。
Of all our abilities, it is free will that truly makes us unique.
在我们所有的能力当中，真的是自由意志使我们变得独特么？
Free will is simply having the power to do as I will dictate.
我等下要讲到自由意志的威力。
The philosophical problems of chance and of free will are closely related.
或然性和自由意志这两个哲学问题是紧密相关的。