| 单词 | will |
| 释义 | will I. transitive verb < call it what you will > — often used in the form would with an object clause < would that I were young again > < I would to heaven I had never seen him > verbal auxiliary 1. — used to express desire, choice, willingness, consent, or in negative constructions refusal < the immortal gods will have no part in this affair — John Buchan > < perverse set of facial muscles that will not, like those of other people, interpret the language of his soul — Emily Brontë > < how long will we put up with the … refusal of refrigerators to fit — Pencil Points > < could find no one who would take the job > < if we will all do our best, we shall succeed > < will you please stop that racket > 2. — used to express frequent, customary, or habitual action or natural tendency or disposition < has a quick temper and will get angry over nothing > < would fall asleep reading his newspaper > < will sit for hours watching the sea > < will work one day and loaf the next > 3. a. — used to express simple futurity < much like a delayed action bomb that will not explode for half a generation — C.P.Taft > < cherish the belief that some day a perfect society will banish evil — Crane Brinton > < tomorrow morning I will wake up in this first-class hotel suite — Tennessee Williams > < have not employed it and probably never will — R.W.Bliss > < some other time we will say what it was — Notes & Queries > < list … will be sent as usual for a stamped and addressed envelope — May L. Becker > < cannot foresee what will happen, but a study of past changes may give us an idea as to what may happen — C.E.P.Brooks > < problem of corruption and morality will remain very real and earnest — Estes Kefauver > b. — used to express simple action or intention without conscious reference to future time < quite a famous view … a good many people will stop and take pictures of it — G.W.Brace > < we will now illustrate the procedure in detail — Z.S.Harris > < I will give you two propositions for the year 1778: a little learning was a dangerous thing, and so was being an American — A.W.Griswold > 4. — used to express capability or sufficiency < square pegs will not fit in round holes > < this will do if there is nothing better > < back seat will hold three passengers > < might go for a tramp somewhere. My finances will just run to it — John Buchan > < this will serve to illustrate the kind of problem — F.N.Robinson > < found that his old rubbers would not go over his new shoes > < three yards of cloth will make a skirt and jacket > 5. — used to express probability or recognition and often equivalent to the simple verb < that will be the milkman at the back door > < this house with the green shutters will be theirs > < she would have been about twenty when she married > < discover a plant growing and clinging close to the rocks. This will be the walking fern or walking leaf — Anne Dorrance > < glass that hides the pendulum will often display a fine example of primitive painting — Ellwood Kirby > 6. a. — used to express determination, insistence, persistence, or willfulness < I have made up my mind to go and go I will > < for some perverse reason he will put his worst foot forward > < had what the doctors will call influenze, as though there were only one form of it — Lord Dunsany > < police are excellent fellows, but … they will hare off after motive, which is a matter for psychologists — Dorothy Sayers > b. — used to express inevitability < accidents will happen > < what will be, will be > < murder will out > 7. — used to express a command, exhortation, or injunction < you will do as I say, at once > < color arrangements will be as prescribed in instructions issued by the Commanding General — Army Regulations & Ordinances > < proposing … that all disputes … will be referred to an impartial tribunal — T.F.Reynolds > < with his petition the applicant will produce the evidence on which he relies — F.J.Grant > intransitive verb 1. < Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean — Mt 8:2 (Authorized Version) > < for better, for worse, and whether we will or no — advt > < factors for which man is responsible and which he can control or change if he will — L.A.White > 2. archaic < thither will I then — Sir Walter Scott > • - if you will - will I, nill I II. 1. a. < my poverty, but not my will, consents — Shakespeare > < not, sir, from want of will, for she is docile and obedient — W.H.Hudson †1922 > < primary determinant is the claims of the parties, their desires and wills — Samuel Alexander > < responsible artist has no will to confuse emotion and thinking — René Wellek & Austin Warren > often < had a strong will to succeed but little capacity > < where there's a will there's a way > < perceived that granted the will they could link their abilities to the new world — Times Literary Supplement > < with the best will in the world … could not live forever — Max Peacock > < proof of their capacity and will to watch and warn and purge — B.N.Cardozo > b. < a fear of hunger and death, and a will for food and springtime and life — Emma Hawkridge > < his own will stirred to the woman — Dan Jacobson > c. < a universe as devoid of will and purpose as man, deterministically viewed, appears to be — F.B.Millet > < too much disposed to make the empire a thing of plan and will — H.G.Wells > < impels you to do things against your reasoned will and intentions — Rose Macaulay > 2. a. < thy will be done — Mt 6:10 (Authorized Version) > < he holds him with his glittering eye … the mariner hath his will — S.T.Coleridge > < failed to accomplish his will > < determined to have his will of them > < will do it … if it is God's will that it should be done — Gilbert Parker > < the means at his disposal for making his will known by the written word — R.W.Southern > < let him be apprehended and learn our awful will — W.S.Gilbert > < man's attempt to impose his own will on things — Norman Goodall > b. (1) archaic (2) 3. a. b. c. 4. a. < the precise relation between the activities of human wills and other forms of activity in the natural world is a highly speculative problem — H.H.Williams > as (1) Scholasticism (2) < the moral will, controlled by consciousness of duty that transcends sense and experience — John Dewey > (3) < the will … is a collective term for all the impulses to motion or action — G.S.Morris > also < what people want when they talk about freedom … is the idea that the conscious will is the master of their destiny — John Hospers > (4) < the will to believe > < the will to agree > < pathetically preserve the will to conquer, even when life no longer presents them with anything worth winning — Lawrence Binyon > < like all the young ladies of fiction in her period, she had cultivated the will to faint — S.M.Crothers > — compare good will, ill will b. < the will of the people > < give expression to a national will — W.J.Shepard > < the law cannot be more important than the local will to have this law — Spencer Parratt > < yielded to what was clearly the popular will — Lindsay Rogers > c. often capitalized 5. a. < deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies — Ps 27:12 (Authorized Version) > < victims of a despot's will > < the nameless chief whose will raised this stupendous fortress — Jacquetta & Christopher Hawkes > < the serf did not know today what he would have to do tomorrow — he was at the will of another — R.W.Southern > b. < a man of iron will > < faltering man … advanced a step or two by his own will — Thomas Hardy > < wife who was just my shadow without any character or will of her own — Havelock Ellis > < his will, so long lying fallow, was overborne by her determination — Joseph Conrad > < the sudden collapse of her will when the strangers enter her house — Bernard De Voto > c. < an indomitable will that knew but one course — to break as much new land as possible each day — O.E.Rölvaag > < science, which gave us this dread power … does not show us how to prevent its baleful use. Only in the will of mankind lies the answer — B.M.Baruch > 6. • - against one's will - at will - of one's own will - one's own sweet will - with a will III. transitive verb 1. archaic 2. a. < willed that his property be divided equally among his children > b. (1) < willed his entire estate to his wife > < willed his property away from his own family > (2) < the abundant beauty he willed to the world — Time > < these things are literally in our blood and in our bones … willed to us genetically — Weston La Barre > 3. a. (1) < fully aware that he lives in an age of conformity, he is proud that his conformity is willed — Leo Marx > < the assumption … that institutions are rational and willed — H.J.Muller > < American people … have willed that all of their sons and daughters shall be educated to the limit of their capacity — English Language Arts > < efforts of the business man can never be successful unless the community wills it so — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > (2) < if Providence so wills it > (3) < willed more mischief than they durst — A.E.Housman > < can adjust a few screws, then go away entirely, knowing that his precise work will be finished for him exactly as he willed it — Roger Burlingame > < believe that whatever is willed can be achieved if only you invent the right machines — Norman Podhoretz > b. (1) < haunted by the thought that he had willed her death > < all humans desire objects and will their attainment — Samuel Alexander > < a positive nihilist, an intellectual force willing destruction — T.S.Eliot > < author wills a meaning into a passage that cannot sustain it — Charles Jackson > (2) < the more accurate understanding of disease … that some of it is psychological, even to the extent that it is willed by the patient — H.A.Overstreet > < a last despairing attempt to will the kind of life he wanted into existence — D.H.Lawrence > < entranced, he tried … to will the vision to remain — Olive Johnson > < willed his countenance back to composure — J.H.Wheelwright > c. 4. archaic intransitive verb 1. < striving might be bearable were there a highest good, to which, by willing, I could attain — Josiah Royce > < would no longer have to go on willing against her — F.M.Ford > 2. a. < king nominated as he willed to bishopric and abbacy — Hilaire Belloc > < the right … to dispose of his labor and capital as he willed — C.A.Cooke > b. < watching the … donkeys and mules which wandered as they willed — Nicholas Monsarrat > < trees that have grown where they willed out of the jumble — Martin Flavin > Synonyms: < will your property to your children > < will a sum of money to a charitable institution > bequeath is much used in wills by the testator and in legal, historical, and literary use, often implying no more than a proved intention < bequeath to each of my sons an equal division of all I own > < bequeathed to the organization his personal fortune and the entire income from his real estate > bequeath in legal use is commonly distinguished from devise by implying a gift of personalty rather than a gift of realty < devised his library, his public and private papers and letters, as well as the stately “Mount Vernon” with its surrounding 4,000 acres — G.W.Goble > leave is the usual unspecific term for any of the preceding terms < at his death the man left his small independent income to his brother > < leave a legacy to the town > legate is the same as bequeath except in always implying a formal will < my library of manuscripts I legate to my alma mater > IV. 1. dialect 2. dialect V. dialect |
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