voluntary

柯林斯詞典

1. ADJ Voluntary actions or activities are done because someone chooses to do them and not because they have been forced to do them. 自愿的
Attention is drawn to a special voluntary course in Commercial French. 注意力被吸引到一門特別的商務(wù)法語(yǔ)選修課上。
2. voluntarilyADV 自愿地[ADV with v]
I would never leave here voluntarily. 我永遠(yuǎn)不會(huì)自愿地離開(kāi)這里。
3. ADJ Voluntary work is done by people who are not paid for it, but who do it because they want to do it. 義務(wù)的
In her spare time she does voluntary work. 她在業(yè)余時(shí)間做義工。
4. ADJ A voluntary organization is controlled and organized by the people who have chosen to work for it, often without being paid, rather than receiving help or money from the government. 志愿的[ADJ n]
Some voluntary organizations run workshops for disabled people. 一些志愿組織為殘障人士開(kāi)辦講習(xí)班。

As a woman of independent means , she spent most of her life in voluntary work .
The union remains obdurate that any redundancies must be voluntary.
Most of our staff work for us on a voluntary basis .
She took voluntary redundancy .
Since retiring from the company , she has done voluntary work for a charity .