accountable

英 [ə'kaʊntəbl] 美 [ə'kaʊntəbl]

• adj. 负有责任的；可说明的

双解释义

adj. (形容词)

1. 对…负责任; 有说明义务

   responsible for your decisions or actions and expected to explain them when you are asked

2. 可解释的,可说明的

   that can be explained

详尽释义

adj. 形容词

1. 可说明的
2. 有解释义务的
3. 应负责任的
4. 有说明义务
5. 有责任的
6. 有解说义务的
7. 可以解释的
8. 应对自己的行为做出说明的
9. 应加以说明的
10. 能够解释的

英英释义

Adjective:

1. liable to account for one's actions;

   "governments must be accountable to someone beside themselves"
   "fully accountable for what they did"
   "the court held the parents answerable for their minor child's acts of vandalism"
   "he was answerable to no one"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. Every person is accountable for his own work.
   每个人都要对自己的工作负责。
2. I am not accountable to you for my actions.
   我没有义务要对你说明我的行动。
3. If anything happens to the boy, I will hold you accountable for it.
   如果这个男孩出什么事的话，我将让你承担一切责任。
4. Her excitement is easily accountable.
   她激动的理由是容易解释的。

常见句型

用作形容词 (adj.)

用作定语

～+ n.

1. It is a very accountable obstinacy.
   这是一种完全可以理解的固执态度。

用作表语

S+be+～

1. 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。
2. 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。

S+be+～+ prep. -phrase

1. He was not accountable for his actions.
   他对自己的行为不负责。
2. Every person is accountable for his own work.
   每个人都要对自己的工作负责。
3. He is strictly accountable for this.
   他对此事负有不可推卸的责任。
4. The long drought is accountable for our poor wheat crop.
   长期干旱是小麦长势差的原因。
5. I am accountable to my superiors for my actions.
   我应该为自己的行为对上司负责。
6. Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.
   从政者最终是向选民负责。
7. Politicians should be accountable to the public who elected them.
   从政者们应对选举他们的公众负责。
8. These leaders are not accountable to their people.
   这些领导人不对自己的人民负责。
9. She is accountable only to the managing director.
   她只对总经理负责。
10. Should the police be more accountable to the public?
    警方该不该对公众负有更大的责任？
11. The council is accountable to the people who elected it.
    市议会要对选举它的人民负责。
12. I'm not accountable to you for my actions.
    我自己的行动无须向你交代。
13. A worker is accountable to his superior for his action.
    员工的行为应对其上级负责。
14. We are accountable to her for the loss.
    我们应向她说明损失情况。
15. You are accountable to me for all the money you spend.
    你应向我说明钱是怎么花的。

用作宾语补足语

S+V+O+～

1. If anything happens to the car,I will hold you accountable.
   这辆车要是出什么问题,我就唯你是问。
2. We don't hold him accountable for the loss.
   我们并不认为他应对这损失负责任。
3. If anything happens to the boy, I will hold you accountable for it.
   如果孩子出了事,我要你负责任。
4. The project was started in an effort to hold local school districts more accountable for what their students learn.
   该项目的出发点是为了使当地的学校对其学生所学的内容更加负责。
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5. He will be held accountable for anything he may say.
   他要对自己说的每句话负责任。
6. As director, she knew she would be held accountable for any budget deficit.
   作为主管,她知道她要对出现的任何预算赤字负责。
7. Someone must be held accountable for the killings.
   必须有人要对这些凶杀事件负责。
8. They cannot be held accountable for what they did.
   不能要他们为自己的所作所为负责。

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

副词+～

• directly accountable to 认为某人要直接负责
• fully accountable to 对…负全部责任

～+介词

• accountable for sth 就某事负责
• accountable to sb 对某人负责
• accountable to sb for sth 为某事对某人负责

词语用法

adj. (形容词)

1. accountable主要用于对自己的决定“负有责任”,或者“应加以解释”。
2. accountable在句中主要用作表语或宾语补足语。其主语多为人,偶尔也可为物或事物。
3. 表示“对某事负有责任”应说accountable for sth; 表示“应对某人负责”应说accountable to sb; 表示“应就某事对某人负责”或“应向某人说明某事”应说accountable to sb for sth。

近反义词

【近义词】

• responsible 有责任的
• liable 有义务的
• answerable 有责任的
• chargeable 可控告的
• amenable 顺从的
• beholden 蒙恩的
• duty-bound 义不容辞的
• obligated 有义务的，有责任的...
• bound 必定的
• obliged 义不容辞的
• culpable 该责备的
• explainable 可说明的
• interpretable 可说明的
• explicable 可解释的
• intelligible 可理解的
• understandable 可理解的
• comprehensible 可理解的
• derivable 可引出的
• blamed 该死的
• open to 易接受 ... 的...
• exposed to 遭受
• held to account 使承担责任
• account 账户
• to 对于
• held 拿着；控制；容纳；握住；...
• blame 责备
• open 开着的
• exposed 暴露的

派生词

adj.(形容词)

• accountability n. 负责