- 1任性；固執己見（帶貶義）
Self-will is a strong wish to do exactly what you want, even when other people say no. The word is used to show : the speaker thinks the person is being stubborn, not brave. You hear it more in older or slightly English than in everyday talk — a parent or teacher might once have said a child had too much self-will. Younger speakers more often say stubbornness, or simply "they always do what they want". It is a noun. The matching adjective is self-willed. It is an old compound: English has had self-will since Old English, from an earlier Germanic word meaning the same thing.
From the word’s history
From Old English selfwill; self + will.
源自古英文 selfwill，由 self 和 will（意志）組成。
組成From Old English selfwill / selfwille, from Proto-Germanic *selbawiljô. In today's English it is self- + will (what you want).
同家族的字
- self-willedthe adjective: a self-willed person has self-will
- willthe wish or determination to do something
原始詞典資料1 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。
self-willnoun
- 1
The quality of being willful and ignoring opposition.
- This Marian principle indicates that women ought to divest themselves of self-will in order to be obedient to the word of God as articulated by male spokesmen.
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