| 单词 | duty |
| 释义 | duty (djuːti , US duːti ) Word forms: duties 1. uncountable noun B2 Duty is work that you have to do for your job. Staff must report for duty at their normal place of work. My duty is to look after the animals. Synonyms: responsibility, job, task, work 2. plural noun B2 Your duties are tasks which you have to do because they are part of your job. I carried out my duties conscientiously. He was relieved of his duties as presidential adviser. 3. singular noun [oft with poss] B1+ If you say that something is your duty, you believe that you ought to do it because it is your responsibility. I consider it my duty to write to you and thank you. 4. variable noun Duties are taxes which you pay to the government on goods that you buy. Import duties still average 30%. ...customs duties. They are pressing the Chancellor to reduce excise duty on beer. 5. off duty, on duty phrase B2 If someone such as a police officer or a nurse is off duty, they are not working. If someone is on duty, they are working. I'm off duty. Four officers were told to go off duty and rest at home. Extra staff had been put on duty. Quotations: Our duty is to be useful, not according to our desires but according to our powersJournal Without duty, life is soft and boneless; it cannot hold itself togetherPensées When a stupid man is doing something that he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his dutyCaesar and Cleopatra Do your duty, and leave the outcome to the GodsHorace England expects that every man will do his dutysignal at the Battle of Trafalgar Duty, honour! We make these words say whatever we want, the same as we do with parrotsMariage Bourgeois Collocations: carry out a duty These men carried out their duties for us and this is the treatment they receive. The Sun (2008) Staff explained the manner in which they tried to carry out their duties in a humane way. The Prisons We Deserve (1994) The policy covers persons employed by the club who have an accident while carrying out their duties. Working with Teenagers (1994) Duty hours are 7:00am 7:00pm and 7:00pm 7:00am. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Eight (8) of these hours must be yard duty hours to help us maintain student safety. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The act may or may not have been performed during duty hours. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He tried to escape during duty hours by scaling a chain link fence at the edge of the island. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Similarly, 5% of human factor accidents occurred to pilots who had been on duty for 13 or more hours, where only 1% of pilot duty hours occur during that time. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Several state nonprofit corporation laws specify that board members are personally liable for approving a transaction that violates a board member's fiduciary duty of loyalty. Christianity Today Directors of nonprofit corporations also have a fiduciary duty of loyalty to the corporation. Christianity Today In most cases, a director breaches the duty of loyalty only through some secret or undisclosed interest in a transaction with the corporation. Christianity Today Under these circumstances, the pastor likely has violated the fiduciary duty of loyalty by usurping a corporate opportunity. Christianity Today In such a case, the duty of loyalty may be violated. Christianity Today Rule-of-law campaigners also say that firms have an ethical duty to promote fairness and human rights. Times, Sunday Times There were rumours a while back that these were to be repatriated out of a sense of ethical duty and cultural respect. Times, Sunday Times Do you have an ethical duty to report it? Times, Sunday Times He argued the doctor breached his ethical duty by giving the star propofol, a powerful anaesthetic normally used only in hospitals, at home to help him sleep. The Sun Reed reviewed the book and, finding no objectionable content, determined it was her ethical duty to defend the book against an outright ban. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 You could, however, be sued if you harmed other car occupants, and an insurer might refuse to pay as you didn't exercise your duty of care to passengers. Times, Sunday Times Captains, too, need to exercise a duty of care. Times, Sunday Times Corporate directors are required to exercise their duties with due care because the institutional integrity of a corporation depends upon the proper discharge of those duties. Christianity Today In 1536, he exercised the duties of censor of the press for the king. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He was, however, stilled barred from campaigning for himself or exercising any duties of his office, should he win. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 After the fourth time of going and being presumed upon for extra duty, the helper decided she won't help anybody anymore. Christianity Today The extra duty on petrol-guzzling cars amounted to 'rather less than the cost of half-filling the tank'. Times, Sunday Times Those buying properties for more than 937,000 will pay extra duty, however. Times, Sunday Times I was also pleased that there was no extra duty on alcohol. Times, Sunday Times Some passengers could lose their flights despite having booked and paid in advance, unless they pay the extra duty. Times, Sunday Times Charter brought proceedings against the defendant on the basis it received the sums transferred with knowledge of breach of trust or fiduciary duty of the manager. Times, Sunday Times (2008) Few courts have addressed the fiduciary duty of loyalty in the context of churches or other nonprofit corporations. Christianity Today (2000) The day we recovered a $60 million verdict against a bank for breach of fiduciary duty. Times, Sunday Times (2015) You have a fiduciary duty. Times, Sunday Times (2016) If elected, they are elected by all shareholders and they have a fiduciary duty to act in the interests of all shareholders. Times, Sunday Times (2015) The pages, in rotation, had only two opportunities to fulfil this duty. Times, Sunday Times Eventually a way was found to allow him to fulfil his duty without putting others in his battalion at risk. The Sun Her guard went home once he had got her to write a confirmation that he had done his utmost to fulfil his duty. Times, Sunday Times If he doesn't, he cannot expect you to fulfil your duty of care towards him. Times, Sunday Times And they don't fulfil the duty to the forces. Times, Sunday Times The no-nonsense regime aims to boost their morale and help them back into full-time duty. The Sun Anyone unemployed for two years will have to take up full-time duties to qualify for handouts. The Sun Why a possible return to full-time duties now? Times,Sunday Times Very shortly afterward, he was appointed deputy interior minister for political affairs, (though he continued his full-time duties as senior adviser). Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He soon grew tired of the day-to-day travel and left his full-time duties to write and spend time with his family. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Though he hestaites sometimes, he handles his duties with precision. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He handles all duties in its creation, including writing, penciling, inking, lettering, and coloring. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She works at a hospital and handles her duties as a doctor and a nurse. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Chafing at the drudgery of the work he soon volunteered for 'hazardous duty'. Times, Sunday Times Birding moved from being a benign activity to hazardous duty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Participation was voluntary, and there was neither a financial reward nor hazardous duty associated with the qualification. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She performed her hazardous duties under enemy shore fire on several occasions, but escaped with only minor damage from shrapnel and no casualties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Maybe you need a rota for household duties, for example. The Sun In exchange for their lodging and pocket money, they usually performlight household duties, including some childcare. Times, Sunday Times However, try drawing up a roster listing the household duties you take on so that it's clear what chores are in lieu of the rent. Times, Sunday Times Research took precedence over household duties. Times, Sunday Times Our actions show we would rather earn more money to pay someone else to fulfil those boring household duties, or to purchase better labour-saving devices, or buy convenience food. Times, Sunday Times New planning guidelines will impose a duty on town halls to keep close tabs on local house prices and rents. The Sun The government plans to impose a duty of care on companies and executives will face jail for the most egregious failures. Times, Sunday Times It did not in terms impose any duty to insure on a director or other officer as such, let alone any civil liability for failure to do so. Times, Sunday Times Such an attractive nuisance may impose a duty of care even towards trespassers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 It was said that it was recognised that imposing a duty of care could enhance standards. Times,Sunday Times She also found a substantial number of the expert witnesses had undergone no training to understand their legal duty. Times, Sunday Times If the employee has real concerns, then as an employer you have a legal duty to help resolve them. Times, Sunday Times Unlike housing and waste disposal, local authorities have no legal duty to maintain parks. Times,Sunday Times The judge said allowing smoking breached landlords' legal duty to prevent 'crime and disorder' on their premises. The Sun The council said it had a legal duty over the bill. The Sun The provincial governors also had worries of their own: ensuring servitors reported for military duty, that walls were maintained, that villages paid their taxes. The Times Literary Supplement Rather than doing his military duty, he stayed overnight at the house of the bishop, talking all night with him. Christianity Today You filed, asking for exemption from military duty on conscientious grounds. Times, Sunday Times Yet he had been influenced by ideas of military duty, and was not a member of an overt opposition group. Times, Sunday Times They were deserting bigotry, penury and boredom more than military duty. The Times Literary Supplement He acknowledged that he was in a minority, but said he felt a moral duty to speak up for his ancient ancestors. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Asylum may be a moral duty, but there is also a strong economic benefit and cultural advantage to immigration. Times, Sunday Times (2016) There is a widespread and illogical feeling that we have a moral duty to horses that we don't have to many other of our fellow mammals. Times, Sunday Times (2013) It was our moral duty to help. The Sun (2016) It has a moral duty to assist these victims. Times, Sunday Times (2011) Then four resumed normal duties while three continued searching. The Sun (2009) Public officials whose normal duties have been suspended are likely to be given basic training. Times,Sunday Times (2020) Both forces are understood to be unhappy at having to divert officers from their normal duties after budget cuts. Times, Sunday Times (2013) He never drank to excess, though, and certainly not on official duty. The Sun Of course civil servants working for ministers have views, but that's separate from their official duty to compile a balanced package for the minister to consider. Times, Sunday Times It became his official duty to present reports from the various departments of state to the king. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In 1990, he went abroad on official duty and did not return. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He also rejected the argument that removing paintings from walls was an official duty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The court should be slow to supplement them by way of an onerous duty of care in private law. Times, Sunday Times The most onerous duty was that he was sometimes called to sit on courts-martial. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Other public sector chiefs with similar earnings had far more onerous duties. Times, Sunday Times She moved to less onerous duties in 1902. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The soldier was exempted from more onerous duties and often got better rations and other favours from his officer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Perhaps - though it seems to me that those who commandeer the recently deceased owe a duty of care. Times, Sunday Times Moreover, fund managers owe a duty to the clients whose money they are paid to invest. Times, Sunday Times But when your wages come out of the listener's wallet you owe a duty of neutrality. The Sun That was not to say that the right of disclosure was absolute, for a person might owe a duty to treat information as private or confidential. Times, Sunday Times Directors of companies up for sale owe a duty to all shareholders. Times, Sunday Times After that, her parental duties began to affect her music-making and further albums contained fewer original compositions and more covers. Times, Sunday Times The powerlessness, the sense of failing in your parental duties, the feeling of not being considered, not respected. Times, Sunday Times It was also about parental duties, neighbourliness and commitments across generations. Times, Sunday Times Neither of us saw it that way, however, until we were shoulder-deep in parental duties with our son. Times, Sunday Times We find a toy, or put on a video, to take over parental duties while we prepare dinner or catch up on work. Times, Sunday Times The traditional textbooks on pastoral theology, he says, primarily stress such pastoral duties as weddings, dedications, and funerals. Christianity Today Ministry in nursing homes has always been one of my favorite pastoral duties, in some sense precisely because of the challenge. Christianity Today He fits in pastoral duties around matches and training. The Sun The offense did not occur while the pastor was performing his pastoral duties. Christianity Today He took his pastoral duties as manager very seriously. Times, Sunday Times Supporting her is his patriotic duty. Times, Sunday Times (2016) The references to patriotic duty are predictable and hackneyed. Times, Sunday Times (2012) She said we had a patriotic duty to remain. Times, Sunday Times (2016) Bolivia has maintained a navy and schoolchildren are taught that a return to the sea is a patriotic duty. Times, Sunday Times (2011) That sense of patriotic duty prevails no longer in many of the sportsmen given the privilege of playing for our national teams. Times, Sunday Times (2010) She carried out minelaying operations, patrol duty, and other routine work. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In addition to these specific groups, all police forces retain a majority of officers for the purpose of patrol duty and general law enforcement. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She continued on patrol duty for the next year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 No mission, however, received the prominence of antisubmarine coastal patrol duty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 She continued her service in this operation with surveying and patrol duty. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This conveys the idea that she's there to perform a duty, not to soak up adulation. Times, Sunday Times Yet removal of their immunity had not resulted in any diminution of the advocate's readiness to perform that duty. Times, Sunday Times He has tried to perform his duty but all attempts have failed. Times, Sunday Times I wasn't asked to perform this duty again. Times, Sunday Times We should also be proud of our prison officers who perform their duty under extreme pressure due to the lack of manpower and with their hands tied behind their backs. The Sun Companies have a primary duty to promote their businesses for the benefit of shareholders. Times, Sunday Times His primary duty was to 'recruit clandestine human intelligence sources'. Times, Sunday Times Instead of secret missions, my primary duty was to glean information from sources such as politicians and scientists. The Sun That was a primary duty but not the only consideration, he said. Times, Sunday Times Any politics that excluded this primary duty to give aid and support was inadequate. Times, Sunday Times Fourth, we get exhausted by having to support the commercial racket while carrying on all our regular duties as well. Christianity Today He has insisted, therefore, that one of the security guards patrolling the fair should, alongside his regular duties, also practise yoga. Times, Sunday Times He has been absent from regular duties for three weeks, including one spent in hospital, after he contracted the virus. Times,Sunday Times Border staff are sometimes taken away from their regular duties to assist them. Times, Sunday Times These were in addition to his regular duties presenting popular planetarium shows from 1956 to 1984 and producing his own radio program. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 What if we inspired them to be fueled by grace and love, not religious duty or pressure? Christianity Today Some came out of religious duty and did not care about preaching one way or another. Christianity Today Church schools prepared individuals for the clergy and for other religious duties and positions. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Most religions grant exceptions from religious duties to people who are sick. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The young generation of the community tends to have little knowledge about their religion and generally do not fulfill all religious duties. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 An expected leave period before resuming duties did not eventuate. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the late 1940s, she was temporarily declared inactive, out of service, but resumed duties shortly thereafter. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Next, after a brief training period, the warship resumed duty with transatlantic convoys. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In case of incapacity, a deputy prime minister assumes the office of acting prime minister until the prime minister resumes duty, or until the appointment of a new prime minister. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The preservation of great art, music and literature, meanwhile, he saw as a sacred duty. Times,Sunday Times I was one of the afternoon volunteers entrusted with this sacred duty. Christianity Today They then refuse to select them, an infringement of their sacred duty to pick the best team. Times, Sunday Times These days, all actors feel they have a sacred duty to show the public that they can laugh at themselves. Times, Sunday Times Reading thus becomes a continuous act of interior iconoclasm: a sacred duty, as well as an absolutely necessary means to understanding the true nature of creation. The Times Literary Supplement These, and an absolute sense of duty, he rigorously applied to himself, often at the cost of anxious heart-searching. Times, Sunday Times (2008) This sense of duty and love of collaborative work shaped much of what he wrote. The Times Literary Supplement (2013) But fame has not dented his sense of duty. The Sun (2015) They must decide whether to vote out of a sense of duty to the past or out of enlightened self-interest. Times, Sunday Times (2014) Western governments share a duty to fight barbarism. Times, Sunday Times Members share the duty of leading services throughout the year. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sportsmanship requires that skaters in the paceline share the duty as paceline leader. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Can they learn to work together so that they are sharing the duties? Times, Sunday Times They shared the duty brilliantly, each performing for more than 20 minutes without interruption and flawless in their reading before a 500-strong congregation. Times, Sunday Times He added that the medical care of people was a 'solemn duty' that the doctors, and the hospital, had failed to perform. Times, Sunday Times It also has a solemn duty to respect the freedoms that the rest of the developed world takes for granted. Times, Sunday Times He said each generation had a solemn duty to hand the world to its successors in a condition that was not only more prosperous, but also more beautiful. Times, Sunday Times But neither she nor they could ever have imagined them having to perform such a solemn duty. The Sun Dear reader, it was my solemn duty to road-test it for you. Times, Sunday Times The planners are failing to meet their statutory duty to protect biodiversity. Times, Sunday Times (2007) There was no statutory duty upon councils to fund open-air swimming pools. Times, Sunday Times (2006) The new statutory duty should not apply to universities and they should be exempt, as proposed for the security services and judicial bodies. Times, Sunday Times (2015) Officials actively seek to avoid their statutory duty to provide advice and assistance to those who make requests by refusing to provide any direct contact information. Times, Sunday Times (2012) Politicians and bureaucrats would succumb to the lure of government lucre accumulated through taxation, tariff duties and public land sales. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 New credit was obtained, foreign investment was stimulated, and taxes were both increased and reorganized, while tariff duties were lowered. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 We favor the immediate downward revision of the existing high and in many cases prohibitive tariff duties, insisting that material reductions be speedily made upon the necessaries of life. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The difference between old and new has narrowed over that time and the latter have always paid more attention to their teaching duties. Times, Sunday Times Without a family and with no college teaching duties, she was able to devote all her time to research. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He considered his teaching duties to be particularly important and enjoyed nurturing the philosophical aspirations of his students. Times, Sunday Times He was able to withdraw from some of his teaching duties, which must have been a relief, and devote his time to writing. The Times Literary Supplement In addition to his teaching duties he supervised sports and ran the school's drama society. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Meanwhile, there are essentially no effective sanctions for prosecutors who violate their duty and ethics. The Times Literary Supplement This stopped a former friend of the artiste from publishing material about her in a book, on the basis that the author had violated a duty of confidence. Times, Sunday Times He was accused with insult, influence of a fair trial and violating the duty to observe secrecy. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Conflict of interest rules are intended to prevent officials from making decisions in circumstances that could reasonably be perceived as violating this duty of office. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The directors violated their duties as directors by issuing shares for the purpose of preventing the takeover. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 关税 Japanese: 任務 |
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