volition: [17] Volition comes via French volition from medieval Latin volitiō, a noun derived from Latin volō ‘I will’. Together with English will, this went back ultimately to Indo-European *wel-, *wol- ‘be pleasing’, which also produced English volunteer and voluptuous. => voluntary, volunteer, voluptuous, will
volition (n.)
1610s, from French volition (16c.), from Medieval Latin volitionem (nominative volitio) "will, volition," noun of action from Latin stem (as in volo "I wish") of velle "to wish," from PIE root *wel- (2) "to wish, will" (see will (v.)). Related: Volitional.
雙語例句
1. Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.
梅金說庫姆斯先生是主動去投案的。
來自柯林斯例句
2. We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition.
我們常常認為我們所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。
來自柯林斯例句
3. He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.
他感覺自己好像被命運掌控，毫無自主選擇的余地。
來自柯林斯例句
4. Both sides admit that a volition, for instance, had occurred.
例如, 雙方都承認出現了意志.
來自哲學部分
5. There seems no pattern to the attack, no volition to the men.