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

• This is not the free-for-all capitalism that has been recommended by the current economic theory, and seems to have been accepted as gospel by economic planners, and also many economists, since the Thatcher and Reagan governments.
  这不是当前经济理论推荐的、自撒切尔（thatcher）和里根（reagan）政府以来许多经济规划者和经济学家似乎已当成真理的放任的资本主义。
• 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？
• By now they were really roughing me up, the fight had turned into a free-for-all.
  到现在他们真地打起我来了，殴打已经变成了一场混战。
• The existence of ancient cities excited them, and an archaeological free-for-all began.
  古城的存在让他们兴奋不已，于是掀起了一阵考古热潮。
• 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。
• Shanghai is a speculative free-for-all ruled almost entirely by momentum a poor indicator of the health of a nation or, by extension, a global economy.
  上海是一个可自由参与的投机市场，几乎完全受市场人气的左右很难表明一个国家的健康状况，更不能反映全球经济的健康与否。
• This would result in a free-for-all on wage bargaining.
  这将造成工资谈判上的漫天要价。
• The name game has now become a free-for-all, in which the World Bank continues to hold grandmaster status.
  现在，命名的游戏已经向所有人开放，但世行仍然保有大师级的地位。
• But this free-for-all contains a radical flaw from a systemic standpoint.
  然而，从系统的角度来看，这种自由选择存在一个重大缺陷。
• The argument between the two drunks ended in a free-for-all in which about 20 people became involved.
  两个醉汉之间的争论最后发展到由约20人自由参加的讨论。