2019-08-01 accountable

英英释义：responsible for the effects of your actions and willing to explain or be criticized for them.

除了有“负有责任的“意思外，还有“应做解释的”的意思。“问责”

最常见的表达形式是 be accountable for/to，也常和 hold 搭配使用用作 be held accountable for。讨个说法

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1. Decision-makers must be accountable for their actions.

2. The school should be held accountable for its handling of the situation.

3. Everyone should be held accountable for his country’s rise and fall.国家兴亡，匹夫有责

4. The men responsible for the bloodshed will not relinquish power, nor will they be held accountable.（体会一下这里 responsible 和 accountable 的用法）

5. An investigation by the transportation department in 2012 found that the FAA had not done enough to “hold Boeing accountable”.

6. Some counties do nothing with the data; some use it to hold educators accountable.

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翻译下面的句子：   

从政者最终需要向选民负责。

Politicians have to be held accountable for their voters in the end.

参考翻译： Politicians are ultimately accountable to the voters.