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单词 involuntary
释义
involuntary
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈvɒl.ən.tər.i/us
/ɪnˈvɑː.lən.ter.i/
not done bychoice; doneunwillingly, or without thedecisionorintentionof thepersoninvolved:
非自愿的；不由自主的，无意识的
Asharptapon thekneeusuallycausesan involuntarymovementof thelowerleg.突然轻轻敲一下膝盖，小腿通常会不由自主地动一下。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Not expected or planned
  • abruptly
  • abruptness
  • ad hoc
  • ad hocism
  • ad hockery
  • extemporize
  • hoof
  • inconceivably
  • innocent
  • innocently
  • instinctive
  • instinctively
  • spirit
  • spontaneity
  • spontaneous
  • spontaneously
  • steepness
  • unannounced
  • unwitting
  • unwittingly
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involuntarily
(Definition ofinvoluntaryfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

involuntary| American Dictionary

involuntary
adjective
us
/ɪnˈvɑl·ənˌter·i/
not donewillingly, or not doneintentionally:
Asharptapbeneath thekneeusuallycausesan involuntarymovementof thelowerleg.
Thedriverof thevehiclewaschargedwith involuntarymanslaughter.
(Definition ofinvoluntaryfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

involuntary| Business English

involuntary
adjective
uk
/ɪnˈvɒləntəri/us
not done bychoice, or not done as aresultof someone'sdecisionorintention:
Involuntaryunemploymentmeansthat yousufferatotallossofsalaryas theresultof thelossofemployment.
Thenumberof involuntary part-timers -peoplewho couldn't get morehoursorfindafull-timejob- isincreasing.
(Definition ofinvoluntaryfrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinvoluntary

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This circuit is involved in the facilitation of both voluntary andinvoluntarymovement.
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Our model allows the retirement date to be either endogenous (voluntary) or exogenous (involuntary).
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Voluntary versusinvoluntaryadmission status was noted (yes/no).
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Those acts ordinarily regarded as voluntary differ from theinvoluntaryin that they are created with will and power.
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The second activity in each comparison we call voluntary, and the first we callinvoluntary.
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Thus, it appears that there is no systematic association between rates of voluntary andinvoluntarymovement.
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In that model, cycles of period 2 can emerge in an economy whereinvoluntaryunemployment takes place.
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Two of the three judges who delivered dissenting verdicts in this contempt case have since been retired, for technically legitimate butinvoluntaryreasons.
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Its muscular action isinvoluntary: it pulls downwards when we inhale and relaxes as we exhale.
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Most tests were autonomic, based on theinvoluntaryreactions of the human body to usually painful situations.
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It is an essentiallyinvoluntaryresponse to how that object is taken to be.
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Observers do not agree about the extent to which these effects should be blamed oninvoluntaryvillagisation and resettlement.
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These parents mayinvoluntaryremember the loss of an important attachment figure and reexperience the fright involved in the loss.
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Cross-cultural solutions to problems resulting frominvoluntarychildlessness have included such strategies as adoption, finding new partners, and dissolving marriages that do not produce offspring.
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The coding scheme was devised to obtain measures of voluntary andinvoluntarymovements.
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