来自PIE*wel,希望，意愿，词源同will，voluntary.引申词义意志力。

1. 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。

2. 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。

3. 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。

4. Both sides admit that a volition, for instance, had occurred.

例如, 双方都承认出现了意志.

5. There seems no pattern to the attack, no volition to the men.

进攻看上去没有一点章法; 士兵看上去没有一点斗志.