v.aux.

1. （表示单纯的将来）将
   He will be home at six.

   他六点回家。

2. （表示意志、意愿）愿，要
   You will come, won't you?

   你会来的，是不是？

3. （表示经常性、习惯性）经常，惯于，总是
   These things will happen.

   这种事总是要发生的。

4. （表示能力、功能）能
   This auditorium will seat one thousand people.

   这个礼堂能容纳一千人。

5. （表示猜测）可能，大概
   This will be the house you're looking for.

   这大概就是你找的那所房子了。

6. （表示责任、义务）必须，一定
   No one will leave the examination room before ten o'clock.

   十点以前谁也不能离开考场。

vt.

1. 用意志力使，主观促成[O2][+（that）]
   I tried with all my might to will him to say no.

   我竭尽全力想使他说不。

2. 遗赠[O1][（+to）]
   He willed his house to his nephew.

   他立下遗嘱，把房子留给侄子。

3. 意欲，决心要

vi.

1. 下决心
2. 愿意

n.

1. 意志，毅力；自制力[C][U]
   Jim has a strong will.

   吉姆是个意志坚强的人。

2. 心愿；目的；意愿[U][+to-v]
   He had a strong will to beat his opponent.

   他有击败对手的强烈欲望。

3. 决心；意图[S]
   She had no will of her own.

   她这人没有主见。

4. （对别人所抱的）情感[U]
   They bear you no ill will.

   他们对你并无恶意。

5. 遗嘱[C]
   In her will she left all her money to her children.

   她在遗嘱中将其所有的钱留给子女。

modal v.

1. expressing the future tense.
   ▸expressing a strong intention or assertion about the future.
2. expressing inevitable events.
3. expressing a request.
   ▸expressing desire, consent, or willingness.
4. expressing facts about ability or capacity.
5. expressing habitual behaviour.
6. expressing probability or expectation about something in the present.

n.

1. the faculty by which a person decides on and initiates action.
   ▸ (also willpower) control or restraint deliberately exerted.
   ▸a desire or intention.
2. a legal document containing instructions for the disposition of one's money and property after one's death.

v.

1. chiefly formal or literary intend or desire to happen.
   ▸bring about by the exercise of mental powers.
2. (will something to) bequeath something to.
   ▸leave specified instructions in one's will.