1ADJ [usually verb-link ADJ](军队中)擅离职守的,无故离队的 If someone in the Armed Forces goes AWOL, they leave their post without the permission of a superior officer. AWOL is an abbreviation for(缩略=)'absent without leave'. (军队中)擅离职守的,无故离队的
The troops went AWOL to express their complaints about the camp.
部队擅自撤离了,以表示他们对军营的不满。
2ADJ [usually verb-link ADJ]不告而别的 If you say that someone has gone AWOL, you mean that they have disappeared without telling anyone where they were going. 不告而别的 [informal]
His real father had gone AWOL about 17 years earlier, and after that his mother had remarried.