volunteer
英 [,vɒlən'tɪə]
美 [,vɑlən'tɪr]
- n. 志愿者；志愿兵
- adj. 志愿的
- vi. 自愿
- vt. 自愿
英文词源
- volunteer
- volunteer: [17] Volunteer comes via French volontaire from Latin voluntārius, a noun use of the adjective which gave English voluntary [14]. This was derived from the noun voluntās ‘will, free will’, which itself was based on volō ‘I will’ (source also of English volition).
=> volition - volunteer (n.)
- c. 1600, "one who offers himself for military service," from Middle French voluntaire, "one who volunteers," also as an adjective, "voluntary," from Latin voluntarius "voluntary, of one's free will," as a plural noun "volunteers" (see voluntary). Non-military sense is first recorded 1630s. As an adjective from 1640s. Tennessee has been the Volunteer State since the Mexican War, when a call for 2,800 volunteers brought out 30,000 men.
- volunteer (v.)
- 1755, from volunteer (n.). Related: Volunteered; volunteering (1690s as a verbal noun).
双语例句
- 1. Finding a volunteer to write the computer program isn't a problem.
- 找个志愿者编这个计算机程序不成问题。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. She was a volunteer, she hadn't had to be press-ganged.
- 她是一个志愿者，不一定非是受人迫使的。
来自柯林斯例句
- 3. I will volunteer my daughters for helping the church sale.
- 我会使自己的女儿自愿帮助教堂出售东西.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 4. She often does volunteer labour during holidays.
- 放假时她常去参加义务劳动.
来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 5. The Armed Forces could do away with conscription and go over to a volunteer system.
- 军队可以废除强制服兵役制度而采取自愿入伍的形式。
来自柯林斯例句