Voluntary

(noun.) composition (often improvised) for a solo instrument (especially solo organ) and not a regular part of a religious service or musical performance.

(adj.) of your own free will or design; done by choice; not forced or compelled; 'man is a voluntary agent'; 'participation was voluntary'; 'voluntary manslaughter'; 'voluntary generosity in times of disaster'; 'voluntary social workers'; 'a voluntary confession' .

(adj.) controlled by individual volition; 'voluntary motions'; 'voluntary muscles' .

编辑:兰尼

• For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Our actions are more voluntary than our judgments; but we have not more liberty in the one than in the other. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The reality of feudalism was its voluntary co-operation. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I envied no girl her lover, no bride her bridegroom, no wife her husband; I was content with this my voluntary, self-offering friend. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Only about one Martian in a thousand dies of sickness or disease, and possibly about twenty take the voluntary pilgrimage. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
• No word left they of their intentions, but it is always thus with those who go upon the voluntary pilgrimage from which none returns. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It is not a just consequence, that what is voluntary is free. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This semi-mystery of the _parure_ was not solved till two or three days afterwards, when she came to make a voluntary confession. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Voluntary enlistments had ceased throughout the greater part of the North, and the draft had been resorted to to fill up our ranks. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• He made a complete voluntary confession. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Do not the therns themselves do likewise with the poor creatures who take the voluntary pilgrimage down the River of Mystery? 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It was known, by the voluntary admission of the owner of the mad-house, that she was received there on the twenty-seventh of July. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Some turn off from their voluntary pilgrimage down the Iss, and, scaling the awful walls of its canyon below us, stop in the valley. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• I did not ask what; I waited voluntary information, which was presently given. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He began speaking of Harriet, and speaking of her with more voluntary praise than Emma had ever heard before. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.

录入:梅林达