volition /vəˈlɪʃən/

• 1. 

  N-UNCOUNT Your volition is the power you have to decide something for yourself. 自愿选择; 自行决定 [正式]

  例：

  We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition.

  我们愿意认为我们所做和所想的一切都是出于自己的意愿。

• 2. 

  PHRASE 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 [正式] [PHR after v]

  例：

  Makin said Mr. Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.

  梅金说库姆斯先生是自己主动去投案的。