duty-bound
有责任的,有责任,有责任感,有义务
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- : morally obliged as a matter of duty
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In his view, a writer has only one duty: to be present in his books.
Our duty is to make sure that they realize that the Prophet is not avenged.
A passing off-duty school safety officer named Fred Lucas said that he had been told the man was a drug dealer.
The NOPD fired Knight in 1973 for stealing lumber from a construction site as an off-duty cop.
That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.
On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.
And as she hesitated between obedience to one and duty toward the other, her life, her love and future was in the balance.
A good many children seem to be like savages in distinguishing those to whom one is bound to speak the truth.
These officers are bound to maintayne themselves and families with food and rayment by their owne and their servant's industrie.