Responsible
[rɪ'spɒnsɪb(ə)l] or [rɪ'spɑnsəbl]
解释:
(adj.) being the agent or cause; 'determined who was the responsible party'; 'termites were responsible for the damage' .
(adj.) worthy of or requiring responsibility or trust; or held accountable; 'a responsible adult'; 'responsible journalism'; 'a responsible position'; 'the captain is responsible for the ship's safety'; 'the cabinet is responsible to the parliament' .
格雷琴编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Liable to respond; likely to be called upon to answer; accountable; answerable; amenable; as, a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in the office.
(a.) Able to respond or answer for one's conduct and obligations; trustworthy, financially or otherwise; as, to have a responsible man for surety.
(a.) Involving responsibility; involving a degree of accountability on the part of the person concerned; as, a responsible office.
戴维斯整理
同义词及近义词：
a. Answerable, liable, accountable, amenable.
手打:莉莎
同义词及反义词：
[See ACCOUNTABLE]
整理:怀亚特
例句:
- But it is a responsible trust,' added Mr Milvey, 'and difficult to discharge. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Gerald himself, who was responsible for all this industry, was he a good director? 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Whilst his father lived Gerald was not responsible for the world. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Perhaps more than anyone else, the Fabians are responsible for turning English socialist thought from the verbalism of the Marxian disciples to the actualities of English political life. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- I am at present responsible for his life; it shall not be forfeited for half an hour's idle gossip. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- Am I responsible for putting back the pins? 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I will tell the first responsible one I see. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He had three wounded Russians in the Palace Hotel for whom he was responsible. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I am not so unreasonable, sir, as to think you at all responsible for my mistakes and wrong conclusions; but I always supposed it was Miss Havisham. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Only you must be responsible for damages. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- You can't make HIM responsible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The least that you owe her is to make it clear to the whole world that she was in no way, directly or indirectly, responsible for his tragic end. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- I am not responsible for her likes and dislikes, retorted Justinian coldly, although he heard this remark with much inward satisfaction. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I never was responsible in my life--I can't be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- If that's responsibility, I am responsible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- An accident, for which he was not responsible, delayed him on his errand. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- Remember you are to that extent responsible for my wooing with Eunice. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Perhaps he is not wholly responsible personally for this state of affairs. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- But now a man must be responsible to himself. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Now that I have begun, I will have some definite reason, some responsible statement, something in the nature of a real answer, from those people. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- A medical man should be responsible for the quality of the drugs consumed by his patients. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- The Frenchman produced his credentials, and declared me to be responsible for the ruin of a poor man, who had trusted in my honour. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I really feel a little responsible. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- But Gutenberg could not be persuaded, he preferred to work after his own fashion, and to be responsible only to himself. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- I am responsible to no Lord Chancellor in her case. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- No doubt a sense of this dilemma is partly responsible for Wilson's earnest plea that the question of liquor be left out of the campaign. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- It is useless, she said, to hold such a child as that responsible for what he says. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Somebody must be responsible for their failures. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Convection is responsible for winds and ocean currents, for land and sea breezes, and other daily phenomena. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The President was required in the more responsible place of seeing that injustice was not done to others. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
整理:怀亚特