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单词 volunteer
释义
volunteer
(vɒləntɪəʳ )
Word forms: volunteers , volunteering , volunteered
1. countable noun B2
A volunteer is someone who does work without being paid for it, because they want to do it.
She now helps in a local school as a volunteer three days a week.
Mike was a member of the local volunteer fire brigade.
2. countable noun B2
A volunteer is someone who offers to do a particular task or job without being forced to do it.
Right. What I want now is two volunteers to come down to the front.
Any volunteers?
3. verb
If you volunteer to do something, you offer to do it without being forced to do it.
Aunt Mary volunteered to clean up the kitchen. [VERB to-infinitive]
He volunteered for the army in 1939. [VERB + for]
She volunteered as a nurse in a soldiers' rest-home. [VERB + as]
He's volunteered his services as a chauffeur. [VERB noun]
[Also VERB]
Synonyms: offer, step forward, offer your services, propose  
4. verb
If you volunteer information, you tell someone something without being asked. [formal]
The room was quiet; no one volunteered any further information. [VERB noun]
'They were both great supporters of Franco,' Ryle volunteered. [VERB with quote]
The next week, Phillida volunteered that they were getting on better. [VERB that]
5. countable noun
A volunteer is someone who chooses to join the armed forces, especially during a war, as opposed to someone who is forced to join by law.
They fought as volunteers with the rebels.
Victory in the civil war had been achieved by a mainly volunteer army.
Collocations:
adult volunteer
There are almost 140,000 cadets and 26,000 adult volunteers.
The Sun (2012)
The Scout Association is urgently trying to recruit 18,000 new adult volunteers to keep up with demand,.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
He will also call for adult volunteers to join a programme to mentor children in care.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
church volunteer
One tip for growing a church volunteer base.
Christianity Today
As making a living, raising families, participating in community affairs and just plain living take more time, the church volunteer becomes more rare.
Christianity Today
There was no proof that she was anything other than a highly respected and valuable church volunteer.
Christianity Today
Church volunteers helped to refurbish the police station, prayed for the police and offered chaplaincy services.
Times, Sunday Times
Church volunteers also made some two hundred phone calls to numbers selected randomly from the metro telephone directory.
Christianity Today
civilian volunteer
The peace activist was wearing a bright orange jacket to identify him as a civilian volunteer.
Times, Sunday Times
Undaunted, he reached the frontline with his bicycle and managed to serve as an unpaid, unregistered, fully non-regulation civilian volunteer attached to several units.
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Casualties have been especially severe among his ill-trained civilian volunteers.
Times, Sunday Times
All of its members, from the cadets themselves to the officers and the support committees are civilian volunteers.
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The groups fighters are a mix of military defectors and civilian volunteers.
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healthy volunteer
Southampton Hospital researchers now want 300 healthy volunteers aged 18 to 45 to test the new jab.
The Sun (2009)
If tests on 60 healthy volunteers succeed, the vaccine will be shipped to victims in West Africa.
The Sun (2014)
Researchers plan to compare brain cells grown from Parkinson's patients with those from healthy volunteers.
The Sun (2011)
recruit a volunteer
Researchers hope to recruit 6,000 volunteers who will have regular health checks, including brain scans and blood tests.
The Sun (2016)
She recruited 15 volunteers who dug a series of test pits across the 4.4 hectare site.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
At one church a volunteer was recruited to take charge of a dramatic production.
Christianity Today (2000)
train volunteers
I know it's hard to find and train willing volunteers.
Christianity Today (2000)
The airline has begun training volunteers from other areas of the business to work as crew and keep aircraft flying.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
He also found time to medically train mountain rescue volunteers.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
unpaid volunteer
Many charity workers are unpaid volunteers.
The Sun (2015)
The unpaid volunteers will build three replicas of huts from 5,000 years ago.
The Sun (2013)
Everyone at WikiLeaks is an unpaid volunteer.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
volunteer opportunity
More than 150 charities and local government, social care, arts and other not-for-profit organisations will be showcasing their job and volunteering opportunities.
Times, Sunday Times
Volunteering opportunities come in all categories - from working with vulnerable groups to helping to maintain landscapes or historic sites.
Times, Sunday Times
There are plenty of free volunteering opportunities closer to home.
Times, Sunday Times
People can also find out about local volunteering opportunities at joininuk.org/get-involved.
The Sun
Surgeries usually have a notice board where you can see if there are any volunteering opportunities.
The Sun
volunteer worker
Youth pastors should be careful to treat as confidential any reference letter they receive on a current or former employee or volunteer worker.
Christianity Today
The announcement brought enough volunteer workers to continue the teaching ministry without interruption.
Christianity Today
Volunteer workers are not counted as employees because their services are not provided in exchange for compensation.
Christianity Today
Once a minister has the organizational structure in hand, he can begin to diffuse authority with accountability to staff, officers, and volunteer workers.
Christianity Today
Volunteer workers scurry hither and thither preparing for the opening lunch in the courtyard, chairs and tables borrowed from the mairie.
The Times Literary Supplement
willing volunteer
To their astonishment they found 86 willing volunteers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The insurgents already have years of experience, thousands of willing volunteers and a presence on the internet.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
A trial, published in the Journal of Sexual Medicine, involved 132 willing volunteers.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
youth volunteer
They may not have received wages for their work on schemes funded by youth volunteering organisation 'v' but their rewards are infinitely more valuable.
The Sun
We are also developing a new youth volunteering programme so that many more young people can actively participate in development and raise awareness at home through their experiences.
Times, Sunday Times
It will form a key plank of his youth volunteering programme.
The Sun
Community service and youth volunteers are welcome.
Houston Chronicle
He accepts that extra funding would be needed from local authorities and central government, charities and the private sector, and they would be staffed by trained youth volunteers.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 志愿者, 自愿
Japanese: 志願者, 自発的に申し出る
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