| 单词 | liable |
| 释义 | li·a·ble 1. a. < liable for the debts incurred by his wife > also < all his property is liable to pay his debts > b. (1) < liable to the driving laws of the state > (2) < liable to the death penalty > < those who do not vote are liable to fines — Americana Annual > c. obsolete < all that we find … liable to our crown and dignity — Shakespeare > 2. obsolete 3. < liable to fall > < liable to be hurt > < these values are liable to fluctuate with every change in the current market — J.A.Hobson > Synonyms: < liable to military service > < liable to be fined > or range variously between this use and employment as a very close synonym for likely; however used, it often though by no means always implies that the likely development will be unpleasant < liable to be burned at the stake for … heresy — Agnes Repplier > < a palatal semiconsonant … liable to pass into another consonant — W.J.Entwistle & W.A.Morison > subject may imply a great likelihood of the development that is indicated; more than the others it may although it does not always indicate that the development has happened or must happen < another mystery … how, subject to the life he describes, he was able to become a poet — Osbert Sitwell > < rivers and streams … subject to great floods — Bram Stoker > open does not stress the probability of the ensuing development that is indicated; it stresses the ease with which that development may occur and especially the lack of shield, guard, or defense against an unpleasant development < another modern tendency in education … perhaps somewhat more open to question — Bertrand Russell > < standing thus alone … open to all the criticism which descends on the lone operator — Bruce Catton > open and exposed are often interchangeable but open makes no necessary implication about the presence or existence of the development, simply indicating lack of defense; in some but not all uses, exposed indicates actual presence of the influencing force without indication of lack of defense < exposed to streptococcus infection > susceptible changes the focus of attention and suggests not a temporary situation but an inherent or essential characteristic of the person or thing involved which makes the indicated influence or development likely < fell in love with her … was already in a highly susceptible state and tumbled immediately — H.S.Canby > < a nature … perhaps even less susceptible than other men's characters of essential change — Walter Pater > prone suggests a more positive predisposition of the subject toward the influence or development, a predisposition which is not merely receptive to the influence or development but which invited it < you may well warn me against such an evil. Human nature is so prone to fall into it — Jane Austen > < I think that girls are less prone than boys to punish oddity by serious physical cruelty — Bertrand Russell > sensitive does not suggest a predisposition toward so much as a very readily perceptive or impressionable nature likely to be influenced by stimuli that might be without effect in another situation < the founding of the university by the greatest capitalist in America made it sensitive to charges of capitalistic influence and inclined to lean backward to avoid them — R.M.Lovett > < so sweet and sensitive that she feels influences more acutely than other people do — Bram Stoker > sensitive may imply that the matter being perceived and calling forth a reaction is unpleasant < raised her voice to a squeaking tone that was very painful to a sensitive ear — Ellen Glasgow > incident may be mentioned in this series only because it indicates the fact of concomitant or ensuing result and implies nothing more than the existence of this fact < economic factors incident to the depression — J.B.Conant > Synonym: see in addition responsible. |
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