1 N-UNCOUNT 自愿选择;自行决定 Your volition is the power you have to decide something for yourself. 自愿选择;自行决定 [formal]
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We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition.
我们常常认为我们所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。
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He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
他感觉自己好像被命运掌控，毫无自主选择的余地。
SYN free will, will, choice, election
2 PHRASE 出于自愿 If you do something of your own volition, you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it. 出于自愿 [formal]
| Word Link | vol ≈ will : benevolent, involuntary, volition |
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