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词汇 volunteer
释义 volunteer
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪər/ us /ˌvɑː.lənˈtɪr/
B2
a person who does something, especially helping other people, willingly and without being forced or paid to do it: 自愿参加者,(尤指帮助别人的)志愿者
The health clinic is relying on volunteers to run the office and answer the phones.这家健康门诊依靠志愿者来负责办公室的日常工作和接听电话。
Since it would be a highly dangerous mission, the Lieutenant asked for volunteers.由于那项任务非常危险,所以中尉请大家自告奋勇。
It's a volunteer army with no paid professionals.这是一支志愿军,没有领军饷的职业军人。
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As a volunteer on the childcare project, I really saw life.作为儿童护理项目的志愿者,我真的见了不少世面。
He emphasized that all the people taking part in the research were volunteers.他着重指出所有参加这项研究的人都是志愿者。
We're saving money by using volunteers.
She placed her name on the list of volunteers.她把自己的名字列入志愿者的名单里。
Charities such as Oxfam are always trying to recruit volunteers to help in their work.诸如乐施会这样的慈善组织总是在尽力吸收志愿者来帮助他们工作。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Organizations - charities
aid
alms
benevolence
benevolent
benevolent society
button day
charity
charity begins at homeidiom
charity box
drive
foreign aid
foundation
good cause
goodwill
non-profit
non-profit-making
not-for-profit
Oxfam
the Peace Corps
the Red Crescent

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Freedom to act
volunteer
verb
uk /ˌvɒl.ənˈtɪər/ us /ˌvɑː.lənˈtɪr/
C1[ I or T ]
to offer to do something that you do not have to do, often without having been asked to do it and/or without expecting payment: 自愿做;无偿做;作志愿者;主动提出做
[ + to infinitive ]During the emergency many staff volunteered to work through the weekend.紧急时刻,很多员工都自愿周末加班。
He volunteered for the army (= he joined even though he did not have to).他自愿参军。
I volunteered myself for the position of Health and Safety Representative.我自告奋勇担任卫生与安全代表一职。
humorousMy friends volunteered me to do the talking.我的朋友们推举我去讲话。
[ T ]
to give information without being asked: 主动提供(信息)
If I were you, I wouldn't volunteer any details of what happened.要是我的话,我不会主动说出所发生事情的任何细节。
[ + speech ]"I saw her going out of the main entrance half an hour ago," he volunteered.“我见她在大约半个小时之前从主出入口走了出来。”他主动说道。
You can accuse me of cowardice, but I still wouldn't volunteer to fight in a war.
I volunteered to do the washing up.
Many women volunteered to work as nurses in the war.
Did anybody volunteer to tidy up?
They all volunteered to help with the digging.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Accepting & agreeing
accepting
accommodation
accreditation
agree to something
agree with something
assent
compact
conclusion
countenance
currency
formal
pre-approved
presumed consent
ratification
ratify
re-establish
regrant
root
signatory
unquestioning

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Saying & uttering

volunteer | American Dictionary


volunteer
noun[ C ]
us/ˌvɑl·ənˈtɪr/
a person who does something, esp. for other people or for an organization, willingly and without being forced or paid to do it:
The charity relies on volunteers to run the office and answer the phones.
volunteer
verb[ I/T ]
us/ˌvɑl·ənˈtɪər/
to do something, esp. for other people or for an organization, willingly and without being forced or paid to do it:
[ + to infinitive ]During the emergency a lot of people volunteered to work through the night.
[ T ]Three physicians volunteered their services.

volunteer | Business English


volunteer
noun[ C ]
uk /ˌvɒlənˈtɪər/us
a person who does a job or some work without being paid or forced to do it:
They employ 1,000 people and 23,000 volunteers.
I will ask for volunteers to help with the search.
volunteer
verb[ I or T ]
uk /ˌvɒlənˈtɪər/us
to offer to do something without being paid for it or without being asked to do it:
If they're short of helpers, I could volunteer.
volunteer to do sthI volunteered to do the accounting.
volunteer for sthHe volunteered for early retirement.
volunteer sb for/to do sthHe volunteered his wife for the job.
More residents need to step forward and volunteer time and energy.
volunteer
adjective
uk /ˌvɒlənˈtɪər/us
used to describe someone who works without expecting payment, or the work they do:
volunteer staff/workers
a volunteer doctor/firefighter/lawyerThe legal advice centres are staffed by volunteer lawyers.
Her volunteer work took up most of her free time.
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Examples of volunteer


volunteer
The mainspring of voluntaryism is that initiative lies with the volunteers.
He set up an experiment, in laboratory conditions, where volunteers were asked to co-operate in a" learning experiment".
In this case, a simulated prison was created and twenty-four volunteers were randomly assigned to the roles of" guard" or" prisoner".
Over the next 70 years, researchers typically obtained informed consent to research from healthy volunteers.
Despite recent large increases in the number of organs transplanted from living donors, especially from genetically unrelated volunteers, supply continues to lag far behind demand.
We do have trained counselors, but our volunteers are not therapists.
The befriending service that has been studied had 150 volunteers and 150 users.
Mirroring wider trends in the voluntary sector, most volunteers are females and middle-aged.
Therefore, it is argued that the volunteers did not bias the genotype effects.
In order to fill their quotas, recruitment officers had to accept all the physically able volunteers they could get.
A similar, though weaker, relationship was shown between volunteering and chronic physical-health problems.
Equally, older volunteers wanted to meet similar others and to form social relationships.
Using elderly volunteers to care for the elderly: opportunities for nursing.
Promoting transformative learning enables community volunteering to provide meaningful roles for seniors, and promotes citizenship participation and the social economy in an ageing society.
The first experiments were those which the volunteers knew they would be subjected to.
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Collocations withvolunteer


volunteer

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active volunteer
Whether the respondent suffered from chronic diseases was not however related to his or her probability of being an activevolunteer.
adult volunteer
There are more than 49,000 cadets, more than 10,000 adult volunteer staff and about 5,000 civilian committee members.
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citizen volunteer
This undoubtedly will result in a citizenvolunteer reserve with a substantial preponderance of what are called teeth arms.
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