我们对那一件事不能负责。

We am not responsible for that.

youdao

我不能负责说他是。

I cannot undertake to say that he was.

youdao

不能负责，你就不能超越和提升，这是不可能的。

Without taking responsibility, one cannot transcend or ascend, it is not possible.

youdao

At the same time, he fears that being a poet means -and this is a fear that literate young men and women have to this very day -- to be a poet means in some way not to be acting responsibly or politically.

与此同时，他也担忧成为一个诗人意味着,这是直到今天文青和文艺女青们共有的一种担忧,成为一个诗人某种意义上,意味着不能负责地践行政治行为。

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