will

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 [wɪɫ]    美 [wɪɫ]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
    — Of course, man's will is often regulated by his reason.
  2. The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
    — Most creatures have a will to live.
  3. One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
    — Eventually I submitted to my parents' will.
  4. Firmness of purpose, fixity of intent
    — Thus Mill’s case for the claim that happiness is the sole human end, put more carefully, is this: ‘Whatever is desired otherwise than as a means to some end beyond itself, and ultimately to happiness, is desired as itself a part of happiness, and is not desired for itself until has become so’ (1861a: 237). Nothing here assumed Hume’s view that every action must ultimately flow from an underived desire. That is a quite separate issue, and Mill’s view of it is closer to that of Kant or Reid than to that of Hume. He insists ‘positively and emphatically’ that the will is a different thing from desire; that a person of confirmed virtue, or any other person whose purposes are fixed, carries out his purposes without any thought of the pleasure he has in contemplating them, or expects to derive from their fulfilment. (1861a: 238) This distinction between purpose and desire is central to Mill’s conception of the will. When we develop purposes we can will against mere likings or aversions: ‘In the case of an habitual purpose, instead of willing the thing because we desire it, we often desire it only because we will it’ (1861a: 238). Every action is caused by a motive, but not every motive is a liking or aversion: When the will is said to be determined by motives, a motive does not mean always, or solely, the anticipation of a pleasure or of a pain…. A habit of willing is commonly called a purpose; and among the causes of our volitions, and of the actions which flow from them, must be reckoned not only likings and aversions, but also purposes. (1843: 842) The formation of purposes from desires is the evolution of will; it is also the development of character. Mill quotes Novalis: ‘a character is a completely fashioned will’ (1843: 843).
  5. A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
    — “Uncle Barnaby was always father and mother to me,” Benson broke in; then after a pause his mind flew off at a tangent. “Is old Hannah all right—in the will, I mean?”
  6. That which is desired; one's wish. archaic
    — I auow by this most sacred head / Of my deare foster child, to ease thy griefe, / And win thy will [...].
  7. Desire, longing. (Now generally merged with later senses.) archaic
    — He felt a great will to make a pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
动词 v.
  1. Used to express the future tense, sometimes with an implication of volition or determination when used in the first person. Compare shall. auxiliary,no-past-participle
    — Do not forget, will you?
  2. To instruct (that something be done) in one's will. intransitive,transitive
  3. To be able to, to have the capacity to. auxiliary,no-past-participle
    — Unfortunately, only one of these gloves will actually fit over my hand.
  4. To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document). transitive
    — He willed his stamp collection to the local museum.
  5. Expressing a present tense or perfect tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference". auxiliary,no-past-participle
    — He will be home by now. He always gets home before 6 o'clock.
  6. To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something. transitive
    — All the fans were willing their team to win the game.
  7. To habitually do (a given action). auxiliary,no-past-participle
    — Boys will be boys.
  8. To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations, often in questions and negation. auxiliary,no-past-participle
    — Will you marry me?
  9. To wish, desire (something). literary,no-past-participle,transitive,uncommon
    — Do what you will.
  10. To wish or desire (that something happen); to intend (that). archaic,intransitive,no-past-participle
    — Consider, if you will, the possibility that the sherry glasses were misplaced accidentally.
  11. Implying will go. archaic,no-past-participle
    — I’ll to England.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
accidents will happen accidents will happen in the best regulated families a drowning man will clutch at a straw a hit dog will holler boys will be boys build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door butter will not melt in someone's mouth by their fruits you will know them cooler heads will prevail cool heads will prevail even a worm will turn faith will move mountains five will get you ten give someone an inch and someone will take a mile heads will roll if you lie with dogs you will get fleas if you will in this essay I will I will yeah kids will be kids longways for as many as will murder will out one will know the reason why only time will tell saner heads will prevail spare the rod and you will spoil the child take care of the pennies and the pounds will take care of themselves ten will get you twenty that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffee that will do the poor we will always have with us there are none so blind as those who will not see the revolution will not be televised the sky will fall on your head the terrorists will have won throw enough mud at the wall and some of it will stick time alone will tell time will tell too much pudding will choke a dog truth will out what's bred in the bone will come out in the flesh when the cat's away the mice will play who keeps company with the wolf will learn to howl will call will do will the real someone please stand up will-they-won't-they will you marry me you will own nothing and be happy against someone's will at will bend someone's will bend to one's will bend to someone's will come-o'-will declaration of will employment at will fire at will force of will free will free will theorem goodwill holographic will ill will joint will living will military will mirror will mutual will nuncupative will pick-at-will pour-over will self-will strength of will tenant at will well-will where there is a will there is a way wilful willful will contest will contract will-force will-less will-maker willpower will to power with a will will on will the good of another
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词源

词源 1
From Middle English willen, wullen, wollen, from Old English willan (“to want”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjan, from Proto-Germanic *wiljaną, from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”).
Cognates
Cognate with Yola ill, weel, well, will, woul, wull (“will”), North Frisian wale, wel (“to want”), Saterland Frisian and West Frisian wolle (“to want”), Alemannic German and Central Franconian welle (“to want”), Cimbrian béllan, bölln (“to want”), Dutch willen (“to want”), German wollen (“to want”), Low German wüllen (“to want; will”), Luxembourgish wëllen (“to want”), Yiddish וועלן (veln, “to want”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål ville (“to want”), Faroese, Icelandic, and Swedish vilja (“to want”), Jamtish vili (“to want; wish”), Norwegian Nynorsk vilja, vilje (“want; will”), Gothic 𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌾𐌰𐌽 (wiljan, “to want”); also Latin velle (“wish”, verb), voleō, volo (“to please, to wish; to want”), French vouloir (“to want”), Italian volere (“to want”), Irish fleá, fleadh (“feast”), Scottish Gaelic fleadh (“feast”), Welsh gwledd (“banquet, feast”), Lithuanian viltis (“to hope; to rely; to expect”), Czech velet (“to command”), volit (“to choose; to elect”), Polish woleć (“to prefer”), Russian во́ля (vólja, “freedom”), во́льный (vólʹnyj, “free”), веле́ть (velétʹ, “to command, to enjoin, to order”), Ukrainian воля (volja, “freedom, liberty, will”), вільний (vilʹnyj, “free”), веліти (velity, “to will, to order, to command”), воліти (volity, “to will, to prefer”), Old Armenian գեղձ (gełj, “desire, wish”), Sanskrit वृणीते (vṛṇīte), वृणोति (vṛṇoti, “to choose”). The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 3, below.
(indicating future action): Compare typologically Bulgarian ще (šte), Macedonian ќе (ḱe), Serbo-Croatian хтети (< Proto-Slavic *xotěti).
词源 2
From Middle English wille, from Old English willa (compare verb willian), from Proto-Germanic *wiljô (“desire, will”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with Dutch wil, German Wille, Swedish vilja, Norwegian vilje.
词源 3
From Middle English willen, from Old English willian (“to will”), from Proto-West Germanic *willjōn (“to will”), from Proto-Indo-European *welh₁- (“to choose, wish”). Cognate with German Low German willen, German willen. The verb is not always distinguishable from Etymology 1, above.
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