Picture a room where someone asks 'who will do this?' and a hand goes up before anyone is picked. Nobody made that person raise it, and nobody is paying them. The whole word lives in that gap between being told and choosing — which is why it also covers offering information nobody asked for, and (jokingly) putting someone else's hand up for them.
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原始詞典資料11 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
volunteernoun/ˌvɒl(ə)nˈtɪə/
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One who enters into, or offers themselves for, any service of their own free will, especially when done without pay.
- The volunteers at the nature reserve meet up ever other Sunday to help its upkeep.
- The largest age group for volunteers was 35-44, the CNCS survey said, and volunteers were most likely to be parents with children under 18. The typical volunteer may live in Utah, which ranked first in the percentage of people who said they volunteered among all 50 states and Washington, DC.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsOne who enters into military service voluntarily (but who, when in service, is subject to discipline and regulations like other soldiers), as opposed to a conscript.
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governmentmilitarypoliticsA voluntary member of the organized militia of a country, as distinguished from a regular or member of the standing army.
- That summer and fall the Army organized twenty-five regiments of volunteers, including two black regiments, which would have all-black captains and lieutenants. All officers were to be selected from regulars and volunteers who had distinguished themselves[…]
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lawA person who acts out of their own will without a legal obligation, such as a donor.
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agriculturebiologybotanyA plant that grows spontaneously, without being cultivated on purpose; see volunteer plant in Wikipedia.
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A native or resident of the American state of Tennessee.
volunteerverb/ˌvɒl(ə)nˈtɪə/
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To enlist oneself as a volunteer.
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To do or offer to do something voluntarily.
- to volunteer for doing the dishes
- Miranda: No good. Both routes are blocked. See these doors? The only way past is to get someone to open them from the other side. Shepard: It's not a fortress; there's got to be something. Here, maybe we can send someone in through this ventilation shaft. Jacob: Practically a suicide mission. I volunteer. Miranda: I appreciate the thought, Jacob, but you couldn't shut down the security systems in time. We need to send a tech expert.
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To offer, usually unprompted.
- to volunteer an explanation
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informalTo offer the services of (someone else) to do something.
- My sister volunteered me to do the dishes.
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biologybotanynatural-sciencesTo grow without human sowing or intentional cultivation.
摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。