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词汇 unaccountable
释义 unaccountable
adjective
uk /ˌʌn.əˈkaʊn.tə.bəl/ us /ˌʌn.əˈkaʊn.t̬ə.bəl/

unaccountableadjective (NOT RESPONSIBLE)


 be unaccountable to someone/something
to not be expected to explain or provide a reason to a particular person or organization for your actions: 无须对…作出解释;不必对…负责
The military and CIA hire contractors who are completely unaccountable to Congress.军方和中央情报局雇佣承包商,这些人的行为完全不必对国会负责。

unaccountableadjective (SURPRISING)


not able to be explained or understood: 难以解释的;无法理解的
unaccountable reasonFor some unaccountable reason, he keeps his wallet in his underwear drawer.不知何故,他把钱包放在内衣抽屉里。
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unaccountably

unaccountable | American Dictionary


unaccountable
adjective[ not gradable ]
us/ˌʌn·əˈkɑʊn·tə·bəl/
not able to be explained or understood:
For some unaccountable reason, he forgot his car keys.
Someone who is unaccountable does not have to explain his or her actions to anyone in authority.

Examples of unaccountable


unaccountable
Regional variation was marked (5.3 to 8.9 per 1000 livebirths) and unaccountable in terms of potential morphogenetic mechanism, suggesting inconsistencies in referral of cases.
Their anxieties focus on daily violations of the rule of law, corruption and unaccountable government.
Grammatical forms found within the grammar of abnormality include adverbs and adverbials that denote the unexpected and unaccountable, as well as mental verbs and place adverbs.
Although they possess the formal structures of democracy, they tend to delegate public policy formulation and decision-making to a largely unaccountable authority, usually the presidency, enjoying broad discretionary powers.
At present societies like implicit, incoherent and unaccountable rationing.
Dreaming presents a serious unaccountable anomaly for the sensorimotor research program and reveals that some of its fundamental assumptions about the nature of consciousness are questionable.
Alongside errors or omissions, and some unaccountable changes or additions, there are questionable details that suggest a misunderstanding or misreading of some typical notational practices of the time.
Middle-class benefits from economic liberalization had to be balanced against the excesses of unaccountable capitalism (whose symptoms included public disasters, corruption scandals and major financial crises).
Moreover, oh-prefaces are specifically unaccountable.
Prosperity is, of course, being promoted for big business, which is becoming more and more unaccountable.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
They will be able to run an unaccountable legislature in the full sense, with merely the theory of accountability.
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The real problem, however, is the debasement of audit by the big firms, which are largely unaccountable and which dominate the regulation process.
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To this day, for some unaccountable reason which to me has never been satisfactorily explained, the railways have not been given these powers.
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The state dips its fingers into his pockets to shore up an inefficient and unaccountable utility.
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They want to give unelected and unaccountable bodies responsibility for such important elements and services as education, housing and social services.
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