volunteer

• n. 志愿者；志愿兵
• adj. 志愿的
• vi. 自愿
• vt. 自愿

词态变化

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