| 词组 | responsibility |
| 释义 | responsibility A person is usually said to have a responsibility for something and to someone: • The responsibility for engineering the line of cars which in 1908 evolved the immortal Model T — John Kenneth Galbraith, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 28 Feb. 1954 • ... Joachim not only assumed personal responsibility for his future study but became his part-time teacher —Current Biography, February 1966 • A great soprano has a responsibility to her public — Robert Evett, Atlantic, September 1970 • ... Landau's piece, examining the fan's, and the journalist's responsibility to rock stars —Lawrence Dietz, Los Angeles Times Book Rev., 23 May 1971 Responsibility is also frequently followed by of, which occurs in the same contexts as for: • ... he determined to take upon his own shoulders the responsibility of organizing some amusements —Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, 1886 • ... it laid the whole responsibility of the war upon Britain —Manchester Guardian Weekly, 27 Oct. 1939 • The banks had the responsibility of the amalgamation of industries —The Autobiography of William Allen White, 1946 Other prepositions that sometimes occur with responsibility include about, in, and toward (or towards): • Things you've had to take responsibility about really should have been mine —Angus Wilson, The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, 1958 • ... federal responsibility in civil rights shifted from the Department of Justice to a broad government base —Current Biography, February 1965 • Anthony Burton had once said that this was your responsibility toward society —John P. Marquand, Atlantic, November 1947 • The idea that he has any responsibility towards Amy or should feel any affection for their son —Times Literary Supp., 29 June 1967 |
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