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单词 to hold responsible
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to hold (a person or thing) responsible
to hold (a person or thing) responsible: to regard (a person or thing) as accountable, answerable, or culpable; to consider (a person or thing) as the cause or catalyst. Frequently with for. Also reflexive. Cf. responsible adj. 3.
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1665 E. Waterhouse Gentlemans Monitor Introd. 1 Nor ought I to hold my self much responsible to Mine own Family.
1737 O. Sedgewick World turn'd Inside-out vii. 103 I should hold myself responsible for all the Inconveniences the Person I made the Promise to.
1795 R. Cumberland Henry III. iii. 23 A lady under his protection, and for whose redress he holds himself responsible.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. viii. 364 For their absence the king was held responsible.
1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vii. §5. 385 Each town and parish was held responsible for the relief of its indigent and disabled poor.
1955 ‘P. Dennis’ Auntie Mame viii. 189 I cannot be held responsible for the sexual preferences of my associates.
2002 Observer 21 Apr. (Drugs Uncovered Suppl.) 62/1 Blue Mystic or 2C-T-7..found underground notoriety on the US dance scene, and been held responsible for a number of teen deaths.
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