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。
• But the revival of Confucius has not been an intellectual free-for-all.
  但儒家学说的复兴并非一场智力混战。
• This has created a free-for-all, with software firms swallowing up hardware firms and vice versa.
  混战产生，软件企业纷纷吞食硬件企业，反之亦然。
• 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。
• You can also find access to free-for-all resources.
  除了以上这些外，你还可以轻松获取完全免费的资源。
• 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。
• In the multiplayer game, players can do a free-for-all or divide up into teams, each choosing a vessel from the various races available in the game.
  在多人游戏中，玩家可自由交战，也可以分成几个不同的小队，每方都可以从游戏的多个种族中选择自己喜欢的一种飞船。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。