by choice

基本解釋

When he is 25, he is with you only by choice.
而當(dāng)他到了25歲，就可以選擇是否和你在一起。
Of course, for some parents, having just one child is not by choice, but by chance.
當(dāng)然，對于一些夫婦來說，只生一個孩子并非出于選擇，而是出于意外。
ONE fear of European Union members outside the euro, either by choice or because they are not ready to join it, has been that they will be cut out of the big decisions being taken in Brussels.
不管是出于選擇也好還是由于根本就不打算加入也好，歐元區(qū)外的各歐盟成員國擔(dān)心的是布魯塞爾方面在做重大決策時，將對他們不予以考慮。

They did so by choice or because of financial need or both.
He was a hobo by choice: As a little boy, he'd seen a hobo come up to ask his mother for a piece of pie and she had given it to him and when the hobo went off down the road the little boy had said, "Ma, what was that fellow?" "Why, that's a hobo."
他是自愿成為流浪漢的：,當(dāng)他還是個小男孩的時候，他見過一個流浪漢向他媽媽,要一塊派，他媽媽給他了,于是當(dāng)流浪漢離開的時候小男孩就問，“媽媽，那個家伙是誰“，“是個流浪漢“
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選
And x0 I'm going to reduce to 0 by choice of my origin being here.
0 等于零,因?yàn)槲野言c(diǎn)取在這里
耶魯公開課 - 基礎(chǔ)物理課程節(jié)選

By heritage and by choice, the United States of America will make that stand.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: UN told to join US or become irrelevant