will
- IPA[wil]
美式
- the faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action；control deliberately exerted to do something or to restrain one's own impulses
- make or try to make (someone) do something or (something) happen by the exercise of mental powers；intend, desire, or wish (something) to happen
verb: will, 3rd person present: wills, gerund or present participle: willing, past tense: willed, past participle: willed
noun: will, plural noun: wills
- 釋義
- 片語
名詞
- 1. the faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action she has an iron will a battle of wills between children and their parents 同義詞
- ▪ control deliberately exerted to do something or to restrain one's own impulses a stupendous effort of will
- ▪ a deliberate or fixed desire or intention Jane had not wanted them to stay against their will the will to live 同義詞
- ▪ the thing that one desires or ordains the disaster was God's will 同義詞
- 2. a legal document containing instructions as to what should be done with one's money and property after one's death. 同義詞
動詞
- 1. make or try to make (someone) do something or (something) happen by the exercise of mental powers reluctantly he willed himself to turn and go back she stared into the fog, willing it to clear
- 2. formal, literary intend, desire, or wish (something) to happen their friendship flourished particularly because Adams willed it he was doing what the saint willed 同義詞
- 3. bequeath something to (someone) by the terms of one's will his father willed the farm to Mr. Timms 同義詞
- ▪ leave specified instructions in one's will he willed that his body be given to the hospital
