duty-bound
基本解释
- adj.义不容辞的
英汉例句
- Any IVF clinic that suspects a financial incentive has been offered is duty-bound to refuse treatment.
任何一家试管受精诊所,对有可能获得金钱激励了的捐助有义务拒绝受理。 - But she felt duty-bound to try to earn a living and speak out, whereas most victims dare not show themselves.
但是,她觉得有责任挣钱生活并大胆说话,而多数受害者不敢在人前露面。 - Few did. Many workers felt duty-bound to go to Fukushima, particularly those with families who were directly affected by the earthquake and tsunami.
但是很少有人这样做,很多工人都觉得自己有责任去福岛,尤其是对那些直接受到地震和海啸冲击的家庭。 - He feels duty-bound to participate materially in this political controversy rather than merely remaining in his studious retirement, however pleasant that is, at his father's house.
他觉得自己有责任积极参与到,这场政治争端中来,而不是仅仅拘泥于晚年的学究生活,不管那种生活是多么的惬意。
耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选 - Mr Portillo is not duty-bound to put unity first, so he prefers not to time-limit his opposition.
ECONOMIST: Up for Portillo The - Men and women move about, duty-bound, ignoring him for the most part as they disappear around corners and into entryways.
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双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
词组短语
- Be duty -bound 义不容辞;责无旁贷
- duty -bound to stop crime 犯罪阻止义务
- be duty -bound to do 有义务做某事
- He is duty -bound 他责无旁贷
- I will be duty -bound 我会义不容辞
短语
英英字典
- If you say you are duty-bound to do something, you are emphasizing that you feel it is your duty to do it.