" It's a nonprofit and they should be answerable to the public, "

" 这是个非营利组织，而且他应该对公众负责。"

I do not believe Thorin Oakenshield feels that he is answerable to anyone. -Nor, for that matter, am I.

我认为索林·橡木盾觉得他不需向任何人解释。－我也不觉得。

In Europe and Japan, universities are answerable only to a ministry of education, which sets academic standards and distributes money.

在欧洲和日本，大学只对教育部负责，教育部会设定学术标准和分配资金。

But his answer was, " It isn't answerable."

" 这是不可答复的。"

Nobody can be answerable for the wishes of that onnatural tribe of mankind.

没有人可以对人类非自然部落的愿望负责。

God, if he believed in Him, his conscience if he had one-these were the only judges to whom he was answerable.

如果他相信上帝，如果他还有良心，那么只有上帝。只有良心，是他可以依据的唯一公断人了。

But we do not know what one-tenth of the water-things eat; so we are not answerable for the water-babies.

但是我不知道十分之一的水生动物吃什么； 所以我不对水宝宝负责。

He was talking about his tax returns, and he said some of these questions are, quote, " not answerable in a positive light."

他还谈到了他的纳税申报表，他说这些问题“无法正面回答”。

" Accountable" means that you are answerable, meaning that you have to be able to defend or justify something that you do.

“负责” 意味着你是负责任的，这意味着你必须能够捍卫或证明你所做的事情。

Perhaps there was some truth in this; though I doubt whether his reserve, or anybody's reserve, can be answerable for the event.

这番话或许真有几分道理；不过我却觉得，这种事既不应当怪他矜持过分，也不应当怪别人矜持过分。

Sri Lanka's prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe has said his government is working towards amending the Constitution to make the president and the cabinet answerable to Parliament.

斯里兰卡总理拉尼尔·维克勒马辛哈表示，他的政府正在努修改宪法，使总统和内阁对议会负责。

My boss made it clear that I was ultimately answerable for what my staff did, and if my attitude didn't change I'd be out of a job.

老板明确表示，我手下的员工的过失最后都是我的过失，而且，如果我不改变态度，就会被辞退。

" And am I answerable that thoughtless and unprincipled men exist, whose shades of countenance may resemble mine" ? Cora calmly demanded of the excited savage.

“我是否应该对存在着轻率和无原则的人负责，他的肤色可能与我相似”？科拉平静地向兴奋的野蛮人问道。

Are they to be considered as viceregents, allowed to reign over a small domain, and answerable for their conduct to a higher tribunal, liable to error?

他是否应该被视为副总督，被允许统治一个小领域，并对他的行为向更高的法庭负责，容易出错？

" But still, if you are a friend of Mr. Fawley's we'll do what we can for a day or two-if he'll make himself answerable" ?

“但是，如果你是福利先生的朋友， 我会在一两天内尽而为——如果他愿意承担责任的话” ？

" My client has undergone a considerable nervous strain. I should wish it put on record that I do not consider him answerable for what he says" .

“我的委托人经历了相当大的神经紧张。我希望记录在案， 我认为他不对他所说的话负责” 。

Sociologists are answerable to an Institutional Review Board, which ensures that all researchers take the privacy and well-being of their subjects into consideration when they design their research methods.

社会学家对机构审查委员会负责，该委员会确保所有研究人员在设计研究方法时都考虑到研究对象的隐私和福祉。

Here's a problem, though. What if many of the defining questions of our age are not answerable in terms of the extent of people encompassed, but the intensity with which people are affected?

但有一个问题。如果我这个时代的许多定义性问题不是根据所涉及的人的范围来回答，而是根据人受到影响的程度来回答，那么怎么办？

Now, thanks to the need to raise capital from outsiders, antitrust probes and the absence or flaws of heirs, the remnants of their empires are dismembered and answerable to fund managers-as Microsoft and Apple already are.

现在，由于向局外企业筹集资本的需求、反垄断的不断加强和后继无人等原因，这些商业帝国解体并由基金经理负责。微软和苹果就是生动的例子。

So, " accountable" and " responsible" are similar in meaning, at least the first meaning we gave of " responsible, " but " accountable" has to be something that refers to giving an explanation, we might say answerable.

所以，“accountable” 和“responsible” 在意思上是相似的，至少我给“responsible” 的第一个意思是这样， 但是“accountable” 必须是指给出解释的东西，我可以说是answerable。