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

• 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。
• 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？
• 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。
• More Chinese equity offerings are taking place in Shanghai, where only a handful of international underwriters and traders are licensed, rather than in free-for-all Hong Kong.
  中国的股票发行更多的是选择在上海进行，而不是自由开放的香港&在上海，只有很少几家国际承销商和交易商得到了牌照。
• 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。
• A free-for-all broke out on the baseball diamond.
  棒球场上发生了一场群殴。
• The pack smells weakness, and the situation turns into a free-for-all where no individual person feels responsible.
  这种帮派嗅出弱点所在，然后场面就会沦为没有人感到负有责任的混战。
• "In a free market, you have a free-for-all and it's the poor who suffers."
  “在自由市场条件下，什么都自由，最后吃亏的还是穷人。”
• 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。
• 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。