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  • v. 对……负责,因(自己的行为、决定等)而受罚;为……担保,保证;代表(某人)表态,替(某人)发言;(用于 have a lot to answer for)负有很大责任,造成许多问题

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  • v. furnish a justifying analysis or explanation

    同义词: account

以上来源于: WordNet

 柯林斯英汉双解大词典 

answer for ( answering, answered, answers )

  • 1. 

    PHRASAL VERB If you have to answer for something bad or wrong you have done, you are punished for it. (为所做的不好或错误的事) 付出代价

    例:

    He must be made to answer for his terrible crimes.

    必须让他为他的深重罪行付出代价。

  • 2. 

    PHRASE If you say that someone has a lot to answer for, you are saying that their actions have led to problems which you think they are responsible for. 负有很大责任 ['have' inflects]

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  • To answer for the opposition, the Republicans chose Bobby Jindal, the young governor of Louisiana and the son of Indian immigrants.

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  • So that would probably be de Broglie's answer for why, in fact, we're not observing the wavelength behavior of material on a day-to-day life.

    所以那就可能是德布罗意关于,为什么我们无法再日常生活中,观测到物质的波动行为的答案。

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  • So a hundred years really before the invention of Game Theory, someone had figured out this answer for this game.

    一百多年前博弈论还没有诞生呢,那时就有人解除了这个博弈的答案

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