There is likewise another great advantage in my scheme, that it will prevent those voluntary abortions, and that horrid practice of women murdering their bastard children, alas! too frequent among us, sacrificing the poor innocent babes, I doubt, more to avoid the expence than the shame, which would move tears and pity in the most savage and inhuman breast.英文原著 · 《A Modest Proposal》
Elementary education, in its modern sense, began with the circulating schools of Griffith Jones of Llanddowror in 1730. They were exceedingly successful because the instruction was given in Welsh, and they stopped after teaching 150,000 to read not because there was no demand for them, but on account of a dispute about their endowments in 1779, eighteen years after Griffith Jones' death. They were followed by voluntary schools, very often kept by illiterate teachers.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Between 1846 and 1848 two organisations--the Welsh Education Committee and the Cambrian Society--were formed; and they developed, respectively, the national schools and the British schools. After the Education Act of 1870, the schools became voluntary or Board; education gradually became compulsory and free; and in 1902 an attempt was made to give the whole system a unity and to connect it with the ordinary system of local government.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Now if Zoe had been an Old Bailey counsel, she would have kept him to the point, reminded him that his visitor was unseen, and fixed a voluntary falsehood on him; but she was not an experienced cross-examiner, and perhaps she was at heart as indignant at the detective as at the falsehood: so she missed her advantage, and said, indignantly, "And what business had you with a detective? You having one at all, and then calling him your solicitor, makes one think all manner of things."英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
He was passionately fond of music. He had few comrades, and his imagination was of the exalted kind. His first ambition was to be a minister, then a missionary; and finally he decided to become a sailor. He wanted to see the world, he had the curiosity of things; he was inclined to search for the strange and the unknown; he must seek that sensation, delightful and fascinating to complex souls, of betaking himself off, of withdrawing from his own world, of breaking with his own mode of life, and of creating for himself voluntary regrets.英文原著 · 《AN ICELAND FISHERMAN》
"Organization, as WE understand it, however, is a different thing. It is based, primarily, on freedom. It is a natural and voluntary grouping of energies to secure results beneficial to humanity.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
As well as the voluntary shuttering of your fund and conversion of it to a family office.美剧 · 《Billions》
Even if the money came from outside sources, even if it was voluntary.美剧 · 《Billions》
I signed myself in for 60 more days. Voluntary commitment.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Like, let's like not turn this into a corporate cult with bike meetings and voluntary retreats美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》
Which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points which will be voluntary, but which would spell out the key decision points演讲 · 《The bottom billion ~ Paul Collier》