Your volition is the power you have to decide something for yourself.
例句
We like to think that everything we do and everything we think is a product of our volition...我们常常认为我们所做和所想的一切都出自自己的意愿。He felt as though he were in the grip of Fate and had no volition of his own.他感觉自己好像被命运掌控,毫无自主选择的余地。
PHRASE
出于自愿
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.
例句
Makin said Mr Coombes had gone to the police of his own volition.梅金说库姆斯先生是主动去投案的。
英汉词典释义
n.
意志,意愿;决定,选择
by one’s own volition出于本人自已的意志
英英词典释义
Noun
1. the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention;
"the exercise of their volition we construe as revolt"- George Meredith