free-for-all

英 [ˈfriː fər ɔːl]

美 [ˈfriː fər ɔːl]

n.  不加管制; 自由放任; 混战; 众人激烈争辩; 大吵大闹

牛津词典

noun

• 不加管制；自由放任
  a situation in which there are no rules or controls and everyone acts for their own advantage
  1. The lowering of trade barriers has led to a free-for-all among exporters.
     降低贸易壁垒导致出口商各自为政。
• 混战；众人激烈争辩；大吵大闹
  a noisy fight or argument in which a lot of people take part

柯林斯词典

• 可自由参加的活动;众人同时争抢的情形
  Afree-for-allis a situation in which several people or groups are trying to get something for themselves and there are no controls on how they do it.
• 混战;群架;众人都参与的争吵
  Afree-for-allis a disorganized fight or argument which lots of people join in.

英英释义

noun

• a noisy fight in a crowd
  Synonym:brawl

双语例句

• It can be useful to think of cloud governance by examining its opposite: the free-for-all chaos in which cloud services are used by an organization without any oversight in place.
  考虑云治理时，看看它的反面是有好处的：组织使用云服务时没有任何监管，从而造成一片混乱。
• Thus, for key countries, a free-for-all is not an appropriate principle.
  因此，对于主要国家而言，自由选择不是一个适当的原则。
• He added: Over the past year it has been a free-for-all for funding, which has made the need for economically rational behaviour disappear.
  他补充说：过去的一年，（电子商务行业）为了融资展开了一场混战，让人觉得理性的经济行为已全无必要。
• The discussion about the new road soon became a free-for-all.
  有关开辟那条新道路的讨论很快就成了一场大吵闹。
• Instead there is the free-for-all of the market, a battlefield where only the fittest survive.
  相反，有的只是面向所有人开放的市场，一个只有适者生存的战场。
• Other, smaller, Arctic powers, perhaps sensing their likely weakness in a free-for-all, are already seeking conciliation rather than confrontation.
  其他较小的北极周边国家或许已经察觉到他们在自由混战中的弱势，开始寻求调解而非对抗。
• Does that mean we are then condemned to a kind of moral free-for-all, in which what is right for you may not be right for me, and nobody is entitled to criticise anyone else's ethics?
  那么这是否意味着我们成了人们谴责的没有道德感的人，对你正确的是对我未必是正确的，谁也没有资格批评别人的道德观？
• Ideas for nanofabrication are coming from many directions in a wonderful free-for-all of discovery.
  奈米制造的新点子，正以一种包含无限可能的美妙方式，从各个方向涌入。
• In the most disruptive scenario, no longer unimaginable, pay-TV would become a free-for-all, with channels hawking themselves directly to consumers, perhaps sending their content over the internet.
  在绝大多数颠覆性、抛开一切不切实际的幻想的规划中，收费电视频道会成为一个向所有人提供免费内容，同时向消费者推销其他频道的媒体，又或者在互联网上发送自己的内容。
• A free-for-all broke out on the baseball diamond.
  棒球场上发生了一场群殴。