| 词汇 | answerable |
| 释义 | answerable adjective uk /ˈɑːn.sər.ə.bəl/ us /ˈæn.sɚ.ə.bəl/ be answerable for something to be responsible for something that happens: 为…承担责任；对…承担后果 Soldiers who obey orders to commit atrocities should be answerable for their crimes.士兵奉命犯下暴行，也必须为其行为承担罪责。 be answerable to someone If you are answerable to someone, you have to explain your actions to them because they have the main control and responsibility: 对（某人）负责 Any European central bank should be directly answerable to the European Parliament.任何欧洲中央银行都必须直接向欧洲议会负责。 Guilty admission of guilt blameworthy blood convict convicted conviction culpable guilt guiltiness guilty guilty as chargedidiom have (someone's) blood on your handsidiom reconvict reconviction responsible suspect You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Duty, obligation and responsibility Examples of answerableanswerable At present, one frequent question answerable only approximately, concerns the continuity/non continuity of oneiric activity during sleep. Ministers are answerable to parliament for the functioning of their departments, run by the respective general directorates. Whether we can reasonably hold ethical theories answerable to a given norm depends on what else we regard as reasonable. As the experiences of many of the case studies suggest, this question is not easily answerable. Legislators and judges will ensure that a question is not answerable by purely legal resources. Indeed, by pinning religion's colours to causal facts, it makes itself answerable to science. The observation of an abnormal activation would be the basis for a whole series of questions, most of them not directly answerable using functional neuroimaging. Not only are legislators more powerful than electors, while in office, but they are also answerable to the latter for how they have used their powers. Who was answerable to it ? Were the stringpullers low-level men or senior bureaucrats answerable to the rulers? They also all had political constituencies in their respective countries to whom they were answerable, or which they needed to convince of the appropriateness of their decisions. The degree to which singers were singing for themselves and the degree to which they were singing for others is an interesting and not easily answerable question. Translation of gaps into answerable research and policy questions. Is it clear, explicit and answerable? The objection stems from the idea that adequacy conditions should hold ethical theories answerable not to moral norms but only to purely theoretical, morally neutral norms. See all examples of answerable 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. |
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