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单词 answerable
释义
answerable
adjective
uk
/ˈɑːn.sər.ə.bəl/us
/ˈæn.sɚ.ə.bəl/
be answerable forsomething
to beresponsiblefor something thathappens:
为…承担责任；对…承担后果
Soldiers whoobeyorderstocommitatrocitiesshould be answerable fortheircrimes.士兵奉命犯下暴行，也必须为其行为承担罪责。
be answerable tosomeone
If you are answerable to someone, you have toexplainyouractionsto them because they have themaincontrolandresponsibility:
对（某人）负责
AnyEuropeancentralbankshould bedirectlyanswerable to theEuropeanParliament.任何欧洲中央银行都必须直接向欧洲议会负责。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Guilty
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  • reconvict
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  • responsible
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Duty, obligation and responsibility
(Definition ofanswerablefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofanswerable

answerable
At present, one frequent questionanswerableonly approximately, concerns the continuity/non continuity of oneiric activity during sleep.
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Ministers areanswerableto parliament for the functioning of their departments, run by the respective general directorates.
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Whether we can reasonably hold ethical theoriesanswerableto a given norm depends on what else we regard as reasonable.
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As the experiences of many of the case studies suggest, this question is not easilyanswerable.
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Legislators and judges will ensure that a question is notanswerableby purely legal resources.
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Indeed, by pinning religion's colours to causal facts, it makes itselfanswerableto science.
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The observation of an abnormal activation would be the basis for a whole series of questions, most of them not directlyanswerableusing functional neuroimaging.
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Not only are legislators more powerful than electors, while in office, but they are alsoanswerableto the latter for how they have used their powers.
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Who wasanswerableto it ?
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Were the stringpullers low-level men or senior bureaucratsanswerableto the rulers?
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They also all had political constituencies in their respective countries to whom they wereanswerable, or which they needed to convince of the appropriateness of their decisions.
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The degree to which singers were singing for themselves and the degree to which they were singing for others is an interesting and not easilyanswerablequestion.
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Translation of gaps intoanswerableresearch and policy questions.
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Is it clear, explicit andanswerable?
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The objection stems from the idea that adequacy conditions should hold ethical theoriesanswerablenot to moral norms but only to purely theoretical, morally neutral norms.
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