accountable

英 [əˈkaʊntəbl]

美 [əˈkaʊntəbl]

adj.  (对自己的决定、行为)负有责任，有说明义务

TEM8经济

Collins.2 / BNC.7192 / COCA.5713

牛津词典

adj.

• （对自己的决定、行为）负有责任，有说明义务
  responsible for your decisions or actions and expected to explain them when you are asked
  1. Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.
     从政者最终是向选民负责。
  2. Someone must be held accountable for the killings.
     必须有人要对这些凶杀事件负责。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 有责任的；应作解释的
  If you areaccountable tosomeoneforsomething that you do, you are responsible for it and must be prepared to justify your actions to that person.
  1. Public officials can finally be held accountable for their actions...
     终于要对政府官员实行问责了。
  2. The major service industries should be accountable to their customers.
     主要的服务行业应该对它们的顾客负责。

英英释义

adj

• liable to account for one's actions
  1. governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves
  2. fully accountable for what they did
  3. the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism
  4. he was answerable to no one

双语例句

• I am not accountable to you for my work.
  我没有义务要对你说明我的工作情况。
• We must measure results and hold each other accountable for our pledges and actions.
  我们必须衡量成果，并对我们各自的承诺和行动负责。
• One of the principles of our legal system is that people are accountable for the foreseeable consequences of their actions.
  我们的法律体系的原则之一是人们要对他们可以预见的行为后果负责。
• Government officials should be accountable for accidents.
  发生事故要问责官员。
• Their apparently strange customs are now easily accountable.
  他们明显奇特的风俗现在可以很容易地得到解释。
• The president struck back at critics who say he should be held accountable for conditions that contributed to the riots.
  一些批评家指出总统应对导致骚乱局面的情形负责，总统对此予以驳斥。
• But they have lost something precious and I hold their government accountable.
  但他们已经丢了一些珍贵的东西，我认为他们的政府应该对此负责。
• As president of the United States, people are going to be held accountable in my administration.
  （如果）我是美国总统，在我的管理下，人们将（为自己的工作）负责。
• I do not think you are so irresponsible and not accountable to people.
  我不觉得你是个如此不负责任和没有交代的人。
• The government of the special administrative region has to be a government accountable to its people.
  特区政府是一个对市民负责任的政府。