responsibility是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 责任， 责任心； 职责， 任务，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- If there were Charles Darnay, if there were ' The young man had taken his hand gratefully; their hands were joined as the Doctor spoke: ' any fancies, any reasons, any apprehensions, anything whatsoever, new or old, against the man she really loved the direct responsibility thereof not lying on his head they should all be obliterated for her sake.
-- For, what would staid British responsibility and respectability have said to orange-trees in boxes in a Bank courtyard, and even to a Cupid over the counter?
-- He wrote a long letter to Lucie, showing her that he had known nothing of her father's imprisonment, until he had 495heard of it from herself, and that he had been as ignorant as she of his father's and uncle's responsibility for that misery, until the paper had been read.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Oh, my theory's this: war is on one side such a beastly, cruel, and awful thing, that no one man, not to speak of a Christian, can individually take upon himself the responsibility of beginning wars; that can only be done by a government, which is called upon to do this, and is driven inevitably into war.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- At eleven the victory was certain, and Martin, his bowels weak with unconfidence, realized that he was now Director of Public Health, with responsibility for seventy thousand lives.
-- Now that he was free from responsibility he began to form his own faction, to save the Department.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With which words she hurried intothe house, as if to shake off the responsibility of my appearance;and left me standing at the garden-gate, looking disconsolatelyover the top of it towards the parlour-window, where a muslincurtain, partly undrawn in the middle, a large round green screenor fan fastened on to the window-sill, a small table, and a greatchair, suggested to me that my aunt might be at that momentseated in awful state.
-- Where does that responsibility rest?
-- 561CHAPTER XLIIMischiefI FEEL as if it were not for me to record, even though thismanuscript is intended for no eyes but mine, how hard I worked atthat tremendous short-hand, and all improvement appertaining toit, in my sense of responsibility to Dora and her aunts.
-- 'It is not merely, my pet,' said I, 'that we lose money and comfort,and even temper sometimes, by not learning to be more careful;but that we incur the serious responsibility of spoiling every onewho comes into our service, or has any dealings with us.
-- We might not,' said Mr. Micawber, lookinground the room as if it represented several hundred acres of highlycultivated land, 'on the first responsibility becoming due, havebeen successful in our harvest, or we might not have got ourharvest in.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ellen set dozens of little black boys to this task, the first position of responsibility a male slave had at Tara.
-- He had shoved the responsibility onto Ellen, and her disappointment at missing the barbecueand the gathering of her friends did not enter his mind; for it was a fine spring day and his fields were beautiful and thebirds were singing and he felt too young and frolicsome to think of anyone else.
-- The elderly ladies of the committee in whose hands rested the responsibility for the whole bazaar rustled in asimportantly as full-rigged ships, hurried the belated young matrons and giggling girls into their booths, and then sweptthrough the doors into the back rooms where the refreshments were being laid out.
-- No, it was easier to shift the responsibility to Aunt Pitty, who after all wasthe head of the house, the chaperon and the arbiter of morals.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The responsibility of giving the lady away devolved upon the Aged, which led to the clergyman's being unintentionally scandalized, and it happened thus.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had proved my my system to myself, and I have rigidly administered it; and I must bear the responsibility of its failures.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Who's shirking their responsibility now!'
-- 'Who is trying to get away NOW from the responsibility of their own boss-ship, as you call it?'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon which Flora returned to take care of her, and hovered about her on a sofa, intermingling kind offices and incoherent scraps of conversation in a manner so confounding, that whether she pressed the Marshalsea to take a spoonful of unclaimed dividends, for it would do her good; or whether she congratulated Little Dorrit's father on coming into possession of a hundred thousand smelling-bottles; or whether she explained that she put seventy-five thousand drops of spirits of lavender on fifty thousand pounds of lump sugar, and that she entreated Little Dorrit to take that gentle restorative; or whether she bathed the foreheads of Doyce and Clennam in vinegar, and gave the late Mr F. more air; no one with any sense of responsibility could have undertaken to decide.
-- This Mr Dorrit (his name is Dorrit) had incurred a responsibility to us, ages before the fairy came out of the Bank and gave him his fortune, under a bond he had signed for the performance of a contract which was not at all performed.
-- He explained that his partner was then absent on an enterprise of importance, and that it particularly behoved himself publicly to accept the blame of what he had rashly done, and publicly to exonerate his partner from all participation in the responsibility of it, lest the successful conduct of that enterprise should be endangered by the slightest suspicion wrongly attaching to his partner's honour and credit in another country.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Now, these four retorts arose from Mr. Giles's taunt; and Mr. Giles's taunt had arisen from his indignation at having the responsibility of going home again, imposed upon himself under cover of a compliment.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On the tiger no responsibility rests.
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