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 clear about my responsibilities and what I am accountable for.
  我非常清楚我的工作职责和所起的作用。
• We must also be more effective, responsive, innovative, flexible, and accountable.
  我们还必须提高成效和反应速度，加强创新和灵活性，并更勇于承担责任。
• We have checks and balances in place to ensure transparent and accountable management.
  我们建立了制衡制度，确保透明和负责任的管理。
• You are accountable to me for his actions.
  你必须为他的行为对我负责。
• 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。
• Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.
  从政者最终是向选民负责。
• 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。
• Her bad temper is easily accountable, she has had a toothache all day.
  她的脾气不好是很容易解释的，因为她的牙疼了一整天。
• People make the right decisions, unselfish decisions, when they're held accountable.
  人们一旦具有了责任心，他们就可以做出正确的和无私的决定。
• Government officials should be accountable for accidents.
  发生事故要问责官员。