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One way to hold this word: will is what a person wants, and -ful means full of it. So wilful can be pictured as a person filled right up with their own wanting, with no room left for what anyone else says. Everything the word does grows from that one picture. Turned on a person, it gives the child who keeps going after being told to stop. Turned on an act, it gives the damage or the disobedience that someone chose, knowing it was wrong. In both directions the word carries a : the speaker is not the will, they are complaining about it.

可以想成 will（想要）加上 -ful（滿滿的）：一個人被自己的「我要」裝得滿滿的，外面的聲音塞不進去。這個字的兩個用法都從這個畫面長出來。往「人」的方向長，就是叫他停、他照樣繼續的任性。往「行為」的方向長，就是明知道不該、還是選擇去做的蓄意。兩邊有個共同點：說話的人不是在欣賞這股意志，而是在抱怨它。

From the word’s history

Middle English wilful, from will plus -ful, literally full of one's own will.

來源資料寫的是：wilful 來自中古英語 wilful，等於 will 加上 -ful，字面上就是「裝滿了自己的意志」。這條線索正好對上今天兩個用法的共同點——事情是從本人的意志裡出來的。

packet evidence: Wiktionary etymology_text for wilful (source_ref kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:759953648:12051) — 'From Middle English wilful; equivalent to will + -ful.'

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比較級 more wilful最高級 most wilful

原始詞典資料2 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。

wilfuladj/ˈwɪlfʊl/

  • 1

    Intentional; deliberate.

    • Knowingly or unknowingly, every therapist assumes that each client possesses the capacity to change through willful choice.
  • 2

    Stubborn and determined.

    • Mary had taken the whim into her willful head, and Jane could not dissuade her.
    • Let you not be taking it bad, Conchubor, but you’ll get little good seeing her this night, for with all my talking it’s wilfuler she’s growing these two months or three.

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。