volition

1. N-UNCOUNT Your volition is the power you have to decide something for yourself. 自願選擇; 自行決定[正式]

We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition. 我們願意認(rèn)爲(wèi)我們所做和所想的一切都是出於自己的意願。

2. PHRASE If you do something of your own volition, you do it because you have decided for yourself that you will do it and not because someone else has told you to do it. 出於自願[正式] [PHR after v]

Makin said Mr. Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition. 梅金說庫姆斯先生是自己主動去投案的。