| 单词 | volunteer |
| 释义 | volunteer (once / 122 pages) nadjv To volunteer means to freely offer up your time and service to help. So a volunteer might offer to water a neighbor's plants while he's on vacation or sign up to serve dinner at a local homeless shelter. When it came into usage circa 1600, the noun volunteer referred to a person who offered himself up for military service. It wasn't until a few decades later that the word was first used in a non-military sense. And a little over a hundred years after that, volunteer expanded from functioning as just a noun to also playing the role of verb. A volunteer is someone who volunteers: willingly performs a task or offers a service. WORD FAMILYvolunteer: voluntary, volunteered, volunteering, volunteers+/involuntary: involuntarily, involuntariness/nonvoluntary: nonvoluntarily/voluntary: involuntary, nonvoluntary, unvoluntary, voluntaries, voluntarily, voluntaryly USAGE EXAMPLESShe was a Girl Scouts leader, Sunday school teacher and volunteer at Rock Spring Congregational Church in Arlington. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) More than 300 men passed through the courses for volunteers, he said, some of them graduates of his civilian training. Washington Post(Jan 02, 2017) College scout teams consist of scholarship players who are buried on the depth chart and walk-ons who volunteer to be tackling dummies. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) 1n a person who performs voluntary work Syn|Hypo|Hyper unpaid worker candy striper a volunteer worker in a hospital pledge takera volunteer who records (usually by telephone) contributions pledged in a fund drive vigilance man, vigilantemember of a vigilance committee worker a person who works at a specific occupation 2n (military) a person who freely enlists for service Syn|Ant|Hyper military volunteer, voluntary conscript, draftee, inductee someone who is drafted into military service man, military man, military personnel, serviceman someone who serves in the armed forces; a member of a military force 3adj without payment a volunteer fire department Syn unpaid voluntary of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled 4v tell voluntarily He volunteered the information Hyper inform impart knowledge of some fact, state or affairs, or event to 5v agree freely She volunteered to drive the old lady home Syn|Hyper offer act, move perform an action, or work out or perform (an action) 6v do volunteer work Hyper work exert oneself by doing mental or physical work for a purpose or out of necessity Volunteer (once / 3059 pages) n WORD FAMILY Volunteer: Volunteers USAGE EXAMPLESVolunteers with the Tippecanoe County Historical Association are restoring and organizing them. Washington Times(Dec 26, 2016) Volunteers range from generals and admirals to enlisted men and women, who sometimes report for telephone duty in military uniform and a Santa hat. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) Volunteers will answer phone calls and emails and post updates about Santa’s storybook world tour on Facebook and Twitter. Seattle Times(Dec 23, 2016) n a native or resident of Tennessee Syn|Hyper Tennessean American a native or inhabitant of the United States |
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