| 词汇 | duty |
| 释义 | duty noun[ C or U ] uk /ˈdʒuː.ti/ us /ˈduː.t̬i/ dutynoun[C or U] (RESPONSIBILITY)B1 something that you have to do because it is part of your job, or something that you feel is the right thing to do: 责任；义务 The duty of the agency is to act in the best interests of the child.这个机构的责任就是为孩子谋取最大利益。 [ + to infinitive ]I felt it was my duty to tell them the truth.我觉得我有责任告诉他们真相。 duty toYou have a duty to yourself to take a break once in a while.偶尔你该给自己放个假。 out of dutyHe only went to see her out of duty (= because he thought he should).他去看她只是出于义务。 report for dutyYou should report for duty (= arrive at work) at 8 a.m. on Monday.你应该在周一上午8点报到。 off/on dutyWhat time are you off/on duty (= when do you finish/start work) tomorrow?明天你几点下／上班？ be duty bound to do something to have to do something because it is your duty: 有义务做…，有责任干… We are duty bound to justify how we spend our funds.我们有义务把资金使用情况说清楚。 She felt that it was her duty to tell the police about the incident. It is surely the duty of the stronger members in a society to help those who are weak.任何社会中帮助弱者都是强者不可推卸的责任。 I'd be failing in my duty if I didn't tell you about the risks involved in the project.我如果不把这个项目涉及的风险告诉你，就是失职 He has failed to fulfil his duties as a father.他没有尽到做父亲的责任。 During the dispute, many police officers were transferred from traffic duty to the prison service. Duty, obligation and responsibility accountable accountable to someone accountably answer for something buck commitment department dual role duty of care fail fall to someone fiefdom obliged on your own head be itidiom ought to owe someone a livingidiom portfolio shoulder someone's answer to someone/somethingidiom the onus dutynoun[C or U] (TAX)a tax paid to the government, especially on things that you bring into a country: 税;（尤指进口）关税 duty onThere's a high duty on alcohol.酒类的关税很高。 Taxation amortizable anti-dumping anti-progressive anti-tax at sourcephrase financial year fiscal drag fiscal year flat tax gas tax regressive regressively road tax sales tax self-assessment taxpayer the taxman tithe top rate unprogressive duty | Business Englishduty noun uk /ˈdjuːti/ us /ˈduːti/pluralduties [ C or U ] LAW a responsibility to do something because it is legally or morally right to do it: Every lawyer has a strong sense of duty and responsibility. a duty to do sthThey have a duty to ensure customers receive sound advice. be sb's dutyIt is your duty to announce any conflict of interest. do your dutyI felt that I had done my duty in reporting the incident to the police. It was alleged that the company had failed in its duty to advise customers of the technical aspects of the paint system. [ C,usually plural ] HR something that you have to do because it is part of your job: His duties included photographing engineering projects such as bridges and airfields. perform/undertake/do dutiesPeople employed under similar conditions should not be paid less than others performing similar duties. teaching/cleaning/administrative duties [ U ] HR one of the periods of time that a working day is divided into during which someone works: night/day dutyDaniels volunteered for night duty so he could take classes at the University of Arizona. [ C or U ] TAX, COMMERCE a tax paid on goods that are bought or imported: duty on sthHe said that duty on a bottle of wine in France is equivalent to 2p compared with £1.16 here. impose/raise/increase dutyThe duty on house purchases of £250,000 or more was increased to 2.5%. a cut/rise/increase in duty fuel/tobacco/petrol duty off duty not working, and not responsible for dealing with things that happen at work: He summoned his entire unit to a crisis meeting, even though many were off duty. When your Estate Manager goes off duty, the alarm system will be monitored by a remote service. on duty working, and responsible for dealing with things that happen at work: During office hours there is always a planning officer on duty who deals with enquiries. The night shift goes on duty at 10 pm. See alsobreach of duty countervailing duty customs duty death duty discriminating duty duty-free estate duty excise duty export duty heavy-duty import duty light-duty medium-duty specific duty stamp duty duty adjective[ before noun ] uk /ˈdjuːti/ us /ˈduːti/ HR used to describe the person who is on duty at a particular time: duty engineer/manager/solicitor Examples of dutyduty This exchangeable end effector permits the robot to perform more complex duties. To be sure, it is an extension of ordinary usage to use 'duty' here, but analytically it is correct. The users of the water invested the communal power with the duty of protecting them against usurpers' efforts to divert the water. Servants were gradually replaced by other types of labour with work duties as crofters or different types of paid workers. They could be full-time content developers, or they could work part-time alongside other teaching or research duties. It tends to distract faculty into emphasizing profitable research and to neglect their teaching duties. Since a claim is a duty owed particularly to the person, the unfairness is plainly suffered by that person. The duty of a judge to apply applicable rules would thus be indeterminate-it would obtain in some cases and not in others. Negative duties thus appear considerably less liberty-limiting than positive duties. Thus, strict liability violates the correlativity of duty and right at the heart of corrective justice. Thus states have special duties to allow minorities to speak their own language and to send their children to the school of their choice. Although she ultimately returns his love, duty and glory take precedence. Ultimately, as we shall see, property owners would, indeed, be found to have a duty to the general public to protect their property from harm. Procedural rules, unlike substantial rules, they do not confer rights or duties, but organise their assignment. A heavy-duty mobile manipulator while carrying a load, experiencing a force, or operating on uneven terrain needs to maintain its balance. See all examples of duty These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. Collocations withdutydutyThese are words often used in combination with duty. Click on a collocation to see more examples of it. anti-dumping duty No application for an anti-dumpingduty has been made. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 basic duty That is a basicduty of government. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 breach of duty In other words, the remedy for the breachofduty must reflect the content of the duty. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. See all collocations with duty |
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