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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "My dear Edward," replied McNabbs, "it would be incurring too great a responsibility for me to reply hic et nunc.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But whatever the true explanation of Barrymore's move-ments might be, I felt that the responsibility of keeping them to myself until I could explain them was more than I could bear.
-- Lyons,' said I, as I rose from this long and incon-clusive interview, 'you are taking a very great responsibility and putting yourself in a very false position by not making an absolutely clean breast of all that you know.
-- Then my senses and my voice came back to me, while a crushing weight of responsibility seemed in an instant to be lifted from my soul.
-- 'Well, I am glad from my heart that you are here, for indeed the responsibility and the mystery were both be-coming too much for my nerves.
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As he mused he became keenly sensible of the deep responsibility they as-sume who disregard the means to attain the end, and of all the danger of setting in motion an engine which it exceeds human power to control.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There's a certain responsibility about having been the wife of a genius."
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then the entertainment began as soon as might be; Mr Codlin having the responsibility of deciding on its length and of protracting or expediting the time for the hero's final triumph over the enemy of mankind, according as he judged that the after-crop of half-pence would be plentiful or scant.
-- But neither the good opinion of Mr Brass, nor the dissatisfaction of Miss Sally, wrought any impression upon that young gentleman, who, throwing the responsibility of this and all other acts and deeds thereafter to be done by him, upon his unlucky destiny, was quite resigned and comfortable: fully prepared for the worst, and philosophically indifferent to the best.
-- There was no divided responsibility now; the whole burden of their two lives had fallen upon her, and henceforth she must think and act for both.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《海底两万里》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Upon this imaginary creature rested the responsibility of all these shipwrecks, which unfortunately were considerable; for of three thousand ships whose loss was annually recorded at Lloyd's, the number of sailing and steam-ships supposed to be totally lost, from the absence of all news, amounted to not less than two hundred!
-- Could I retract my word, and take upon myself the responsibility of compromising the future of my companions?
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《恋爱中的女人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And isn't it horrible too to think of such a thing happening to one, when one was a child, and having to carry the responsibility of it all through one's life.
-- Therefore, quite cheerfully Laura prepared to take her mother's place as hostess, and Gerald assumed responsibility for the amusements on the water.
-- Since, however, Gerald had come home and assumed responsibility in the firm, and had proved such a wonderful director, the father, tired and weary of all outside concerns, had put all his trust of these things in his son, implicitly, leaving everything to him, and assuming a rather touching dependence on the young enemy.
-- It was as if, even dying, he must have some anxiety, some responsibility of love, of Charity, upon his heart.
-- She who could never suffer, because she never formed vital connections, she who could lose the dearest things of her life and be just the same the next day, the whole memory dropped out, as if deliberately, she whose will was so strangely and easily free, anarchistic, almost nihilistic, who like a soulless bird flits on its own will, without attachment or responsibility beyond the moment, who in her every motion snapped the threads of serious relationship with blithe, free hands, really nihilistic, because never troubled, she must be the object of her father's final passionate solicitude.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Jim said he would 'jis' 's soon have tobacker in his coffee;' and found so much fault with it, and with the work and bother of raising the mullen, and jews-harping the rats, and petting and flattering up the snakes and spiders and things, on top of all the other work he had to do on pens, and in- scriptions, and journals, and things, which made it more trouble and worry and responsibility to be a pris-oner than anything he ever undertook, that Tom most lost all patience with him; and said he was just loadened down with more gaudier chances than a prisoner ever had in the world to make a name for himself, and yet he didn't know enough to appreciate them, and they was just about wasted on him.
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