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Willful (also spelled 'wilful' in British English) describes someone who insists on doing what they want, even when told not to, or when it's clearly a bad idea — a stubborn, determined-to-have-their-own-way kind of behavior, often used for children ('a willful child'). It also has a more serious legal or formal meaning: done on purpose, knowing it's wrong — 'willful damage' or 'willful neglect' means someone did it deliberately, not by accident.
（性格）任性固執的；（法律／正式）蓄意的、故意的
組成will (what someone wants or intends) + -ful (adjective ending, 'full of').
同家族的字
- willshares the root 'will', meaning a person's own intention or desire
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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。
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American standard spelling of wilful.
- I may well say that a willfuler woman, and one more wedded unto her own opinion, without order, reason, and discretion, I never did know or heard of.
- I hope you’ll excuse the liberty, but I’ve come to Detmold along with Herr Peters, the apothecary, in his pony chaise; and a willfuler-minded beast I never sat behind. A taste of the whip would do him good, and if he was mine he should have it.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。