free-for-all

noun

1. 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。
2. 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

1. 可自由参加的活动;众人同时争抢的情形
   A free-for-all is 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.
2. 混战;群架;众人都参与的争吵
   A free-for-all is a disorganized fight or argument which lots of people join in.

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. These kids ought to feel ashamed of themselves for such a free-for-all in public.
   这些孩子在大庭广众这样大吵大闹真是该感到害臊。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. A third concern is that the voucher system will lead to a free-for-all, with schools provided by charlatans or religious extremists.
   第三个问题是，代金券体系可能导致毫无规则可言的局面，骗子和宗教极端分子也会出来办学。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. A free-for-all broke out on the baseball diamond.
    棒球场上发生了一场群殴。
11. 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。
12. "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。”
13. 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。
14. If you have unlimited funds, as Congress seems to think it does, then it's a financial free-for-all.
    如果你有无限的资金，因为美国国会似乎认为是这样，那么它是一个金融自由换取所有。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. 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。
18. 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。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。
24. 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？
25. 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。
26. The report by the all-party parliamentary group on Central Africa says the general breakdown in state control caused by the war in Congo has created a free-for-all atmosphere being exploited by arms traffickers and local warlords.
    各党派议员中非小组作出的报道称，由于在刚果的战争而造成的国家失控已经给被武器偷运者和当地军阀创造出了他们梦寐以求的混战状态。
27. 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。
28. 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。
29. 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。

noun

1. a noisy fight in a crowd

   Synonym:    brawl