responsible是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. (for， to) 应负责的； 可靠的； 责任重大的，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：
-- That, for these rea-sons, the jury, being a loyal jury (as he knew they were), and being a responsible jury (as THEY knew they were), must positively find the prisoner Guilty, and make an end of him, whether they liked it or not.
-- 'And has left me,' answered the nephew, 'bound to a sys-tem that is frightful to me, responsible for it, but powerless in it; seeking to execute the last request of my dear mother's lips, and obey the last look of my dear mother's eyes, which implored me to have mercy and to redress; and tortured by seeking assistance and power in vain.'
-- The House itself, magnificently reading the paper quite in the far-off perspective, lowered displeased, as if the 202 A tale of two citiesStryver head had been butted into its responsible waist-coat.
-- And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer in-telligences may read in the feeble shining of this earth of ours, every thought and act, every vice and virtue, of every responsible creature on it.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then he will be afraid!He is responsible for them to OUR LORD, and no one dares to pluck them up before HE gives leave.'
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It appears," he went on, with eager interest, "that Friedrich was not, after all, the person chiefly responsible for the partition of Poland.
-- He was indeed the person chiefly responsible for the chill benumbing all the guests before Stepan Arkadyevitch came in.
-- "Quos vult perdere dementat," he said, meaning by quos the persons responsible for this appointment.
-- The princess, conscious that Agafea Mihalovna's wrath must be chiefly directed against her, as the person responsible for the raspberry jam-making, tried to appear to be absorbed in other things and not interested in the jam, talked of other matters, but cast stealthy glances in the direction of the stove.
-- he thought unconsciously, seeking someone responsible for this suffering for him to punish; but there was no one responsible.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "And inasmuch," continued the judge, "as it is not proved that the act was not done by the connivance of the master with the servant, and as the master in any case must be held responsible for the acts of his paid servant, I condemn Phileas Fogg to a week's imprisonment and a fine of one hundred and fifty pounds."
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- People were crowding in; mature, responsible people.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rushing to the conclusion 536 Crime and Punishmentthat Amalia Ivanovna must be responsible for those who were absent, she began treating her with extreme noncha-lance, which the latter promptly observed and resented.
-- 'I am ready, I'll be responsible 芒聙娄 but calm yourself, mad-am, calm yourself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I am responsible for them to myself, I actupon them, and I say no more about them.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike, for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew: it is a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them.
-- I feel more responsible than I should if she had had any friends or relations alive.
-- She collected the probabilities of the case, and concluded that she was herself responsible for Boldwood's appearance there.
-- "I'll be responsible to Miss Everdene for what we do.
-- The conviction that Boldwood had not been morally responsible for his later acts now became general.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Vauquer was wont to confine her attention to events, and did not go very deeply into the causes that brought them about; she likewise preferred to throw the blame of her own mistakes on other people, so she chose to consider that the honest vermicelli maker was responsible for her misfortune.
-- "If you are going to champion Father Goriot, and set up for his responsible editor into the bargain, you had need be a crack shot and know how to handle the foils," he said, banteringly.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Mrs. Bonnell's children have the measles," said Mrs. Merriwether abruptly, showing plainly that she held Mrs.Bonnell personally responsible for permitting such a thing to happen.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sheep stopped in their eating and looked timidly at us; and the cattle, their heads turned from the wind and sleet, stared angrily as if they held us responsible for both annoyances; but, except these things, and the shudder of the dying day in every blade of grass, there was no break in the bleak stillness of the marshes.
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