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answerable

/an-ser-uh-buhl, ahn-/US // ˈæn sər ə bəl, ˈɑn- //UK // (ˈɑːnsərəbəl) //

可回答,可回答的,可以回答的,可以回答

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : liable to be asked to give account; responsible: He is answerable to a committee for all his decisions.
    • : capable of being answered: a question answerable by mail.
    • : proportionate; correlative.
    • : corresponding; suitable: The amount is not answerable to my needs.

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Examples

  • While the Károlyis are answerable for what they did, this convenient tale is not the whole story.

  • Those people will be answerable obviously to the voters at some point.

  • He says he doesn’t miss the complexity of being answerable to both city and state governments, and he loves working with a “very enlightened” mayor in Khan.

  • The nature of the autocracy—that it was only answerable to itself—meant it could not draw its power from the people.

  • The unit was, according to Hughes, answerable to Adams, the Belfast commander.

  • And yet for an agency that supposedly is answerable to no one, its people sure do testify a lot before Congress.

  • Choice B: New bankers appointed by and answerable to the president.

  • This time I am convinced that the second reason is almost wholly answerable for your latest commission.

  • Ford is answerable for many of the fixed ideas about Spain which it seems quite impossible to remove.

  • They hold themselves at all times answerable to the law of the land, for their conduct in the trust committed to them.

  • He chooses to return to his original state, and now stands answerable himself, when the time shall come for his trial.

  • And in such case should not I be answerable for any mischief which might ensue?