willy-nilly
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源自will I, nill I（有时亦用ye或he代替I），意为“如果我希望，如果我不希望”，即“无论我希不希望”。参见will (“想要，希望”)、nill (“（弃用）不想，不愿，不希望”)。[1]
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willy-nilly (比較級 more willy-nilly, 最高級 most willy-nilly)
- 无论（别人）想不想要；不管三七二十一；随意，随心所欲，轻易，只管
- 近義詞： (古旧) nilly-willy、nolens volens
- Some writers chasing money churn out novels willy-nilly.
- 一些只想着钱的作家就一股脑地写一堆[劣质]小说。
- 1868, [Johann Wolfgang von] Goethe, 譯者 Arthur Duke Coleridge, Egmont. A Tragedy. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, Act II，頁號 40:
- Whenever I see a long handsome neck, willy nilly, the thought will come uppermost—What a capital neck for carving! Those cursed executions! One can't rid one's mind of them.
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- 1869 4月 1, A. A. D., “Twelve Scenes in a Young Lady’s Life. No. IV. A Spring Ramble.”, 出自 The Young Englishwoman. A Volume of Pure Literature, New Fashions, and Pretty Needlework Patterns, 卷 III, London: Ward, Lock, and Tyler, […], →OCLC, stanza 1，頁號 220，列號 1:
- I'll own I'm very glad he's come— / To hide my feelings would be silly— / You see I'm not so shy as some, / My thoughts will come out "willy-nilly."
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- Template:RQ:Besant For Faith and Freedom
- 1895 January, Thomas Hardy, “Hearts Insurgent”, 出自 Harper’s New Monthly Magazine, 卷 XC, 期 DXXXVI, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, chapter VIII，頁號 194，列號 2:
- He says he shall come for me willy-nilly, and father and mother say I must have him! But I don't want to—because—because—I love you best!
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- Template:RQ:Huxley Ape and Essence
- 1954, Aldous Huxley, The Doors of Perception, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC，頁號 36:
- The outer world is what we wake up to every morning of our lives, is the place where, willy-nilly, we must try to make our living.
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- 偶然地，随机地
- The novel Alice in Wonderland describes a place where things happen willy-nilly.
- 小说《爱丽丝梦游仙境》写了一个有很多怪事发生的地方。
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willy-nilly (比較級 more willy-nilly, 最高級 most willy-nilly)
- 无论想不想都会发生的
- 近義詞： (古旧) nilly-willy
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- ↑ “willy-nilly, adv. and adj.”, OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2015; “willy-nilly, adv.”, Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
