单词
willful
读音
ˈwɪlfl
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英式
词根
“Willful”的词根是“will”，表示“意愿”，“决心”。这个词根还可以衍生出其他单词，例如“willing”（愿意的），“willpower”（意志力）。
释义
adj. 有意的；任性的；故意的
例句
They swear, they are ill-mannered and aggressive, willful as two-years-olds and utterly selfish.
他们骂人，举止粗鲁，咄咄逼人，像两岁孩子一样任性，而且非常自私。
They are made much worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our reluctance to work together before everything goes to hell.
更糟糕的是，我们对风险的故意视而不见，以及不愿在一切变糟之前共同努力。
For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay.
为此，半个世纪的遗忘让人们忘记了像德国泰坦尼克号这样的痛苦回忆，也许是一个合理的代价。
They swear, they are ill-mannered and aggressive, willful as two-years-olds and utterly selfish.
他们骂人，举止粗鲁，咄咄逼人，像两岁孩子一样任性，而且非常自私。
They are made much worse by our willful blindness to risk as much as our reluctance to work together before everything goes to hell.
更糟糕的是，我们对风险的故意视而不见，以及不愿在一切变糟之前共同努力。
For that, a half century of willful forgetting about painful memories like the German Titanic was perhaps a reasonable price to pay.
为此，半个世纪的遗忘让人们忘记了像德国泰坦尼克号这样的痛苦回忆，也许是一个合理的代价。
强化记忆
可以将"willful"分解为"will"和"ful"让记忆更容易，"will"就是“意志”，"ful"就像是“满的”，将两者结合就是“充满意愿/决心的”，即“任性的”。“Willful”一词源于中古英语的“wilful”，具有偏离道德或正确行为的含义。它在西方文化中往往是贬义的，因为它常用来形容不遵守规则或不可预测的行为。
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So much of this ignorance, this civic illiteracy,is willful.There are some millennials, for instance,
And they're vulnerable to misuse,willful or otherwise.I have a friend, Emily Willingham, who's a scientist,
But, remember -- I came hereto play smart, willful, complicated, interestingcomplex, confident female characters, right?
and I believe that when you havethis kind of disengagement, this willful ignorance,it becomes both a cause and a consequence
Similar warning signs of tragedy are constantly overlooked throughout the play.Sometimes, these oversights occur because of willful blindness–such as when Ophelia’s father dismisses Hamlet’s alarming actions
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