单词 | responsible |
释义 | re·spon·si·ble I. 1. obsolete 2. a. < a man is responsible for his acts > b. < responsible for her injury > < a committee responsible for assembling supplies > c. < a guardian is responsible to the court for his conduct in office > 3. a. < a responsible citizen > b. c. (1) (2) 4. < a responsible office > 5. Synonyms: < while held responsible for the bank's operations, the president has powers considered largely nominal — Current Biography > < chief of personnel for the New York Herald Tribune, where she is also responsible for special editorial work in the field of industrial relations — Current Biography > answerable is likely to be used in situations involving moral or legal obligation or duty under judgment < we must take heed, however, that we do not load their memory with infamy which of right belongs to their master. For the treaty of Dover the King himself is chiefly answerable — T.B.Macaulay > < there was something ineradicably corrupt inside her for which her father was not answerable — E.K.Brown > accountable may be used in situations involving imminence of retribution for unfulfilled trust or violated obligation < the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character and to his own conscience — John Marshall > amenable may indicate the fact of subjection to review, judgment, or control by a higher agency < certain boats are sometimes not amenable to the rules of the right-of-way. A naval boat, for instance, on official business, may demand and take the right-of-way — H.A.Calahan > < scholar and teacher alike ranked as clerks, free from lay responsibilities or the control of civil tribunals, and amenable only to the rule of the bishop and the sentence of his spiritual courts — J.R.Green > liable may indicate the fact of being legally answerable without making further indication or implication < judgment in cases of impeachment shall not extend further than to removal from office, and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States; but the party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and subject to indictment, trial, judgment, and punishment, according to law — U.S. Constitution > II. |
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