"Responsibility" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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 zé rèn responsibility / blame / duty / CL:個|个[ge4]
 zhí zé duty / responsibility / obligation
 guò cuò mistake / fault / responsibility (for a fault)
 dàn zi carrying pole and the loads on it / burden / task / responsibility / CL:副[fu4]
 zhí shǒu duty / responsibility / post
 gān xì responsibility
 shì quán position / authority / responsibility
 rèn to assign / to appoint / to take up a post / office / responsibility / to let / to allow / to give free rein to / no matter (how, what etc) / classifier for terms served in office, or for spouses, girlfriends etc (as in 前任男友)
 zé duty / responsibility / to reproach / to blame
 hè to carry on one's shoulder or back / burden / responsibility
 fù zé to be in charge of / to take responsibility for / to be to blame / conscientious
 fǎ lu:4 zé rèn legal responsibility / liability
 zì fù conceited / to take responsibility
 zé rèn gǎn sense of responsibility
 zé rèn zhì system of job responsibility
 zhòng rèn heavy responsibility
 xíng shì zé rèn criminal responsibility
 fèn wài exceptionally / not one's responsibility or job
 fù zé rèn to take responsibility / to bear responsibility / to be responsible
 lián dài zé rèn to bear joint responsibility for sth / joint liability (law)
 zé rèn xīn sense of responsibility
 zuò zhǔ to decide / to make decisions / to take responsibility (for deciding) / to be in charge / to give sb justice
 zhòng dàn heavy burden / difficult task / great responsibility
 bāo lǎn to monopolize / to take on responsibility over everything / to undertake the whole task
 mái dān to pay the bill (in a restaurant etc) (loanword from Cantonese) / (fig.) to bear responsibility
 zhuó luò whereabouts / place to settle / reliable source (of funds etc) / (of responsibility for a matter) to rest with sb / settlement / solution
 dòng liáng ridgepole / ridgepole and beams / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state)
 bāo gān to have the full responsibility of a job / allocated task
诿 tuī wěi to shirk responsibility / to blame others / to pass the buck
 dú dāng yī miàn to assume personal responsibility (idiom) / to take charge of a section
 yǐn jiù to take the blame / to accept responsibility (for a mistake)
 zé wú páng dài to be duty bound / to be one's unshirkable responsibility
 dān dài to pardon / please excuse (me) / to take responsibility
 zì fù yíng kuī responsible for its profit and losses (of organization) / financially autonomous / personal financial responsibility
 zǒng lǎn to assume full responsibility / to be in full control / to monopolize
 zhòng zé heavy responsibility / serious criticism
 tiǎo dà liáng to play a leading role / to bear a heavy responsibility
 zhuān zé specific responsibility
 zé rèn qū area of responsibility
 dān to undertake / to carry / to shoulder / to take responsibility
 sè zé to carry out one's duties perfunctorily / to fulfill one's responsibility
 yī zhù qíng tiān lit. to support the sky as a single pillar (idiom) / fig. to take a crucial responsibility upon one's shoulders
 yǐn jiù cí zhí to admit responsibility and resign
 tōu ān to shirk responsibility / thoughtless pleasure-seeking
 fèn wài (adv) especially / (n) not ones responsibility or job
 tuī lái tuī qù (idiom) to rudely push and pull others / (idiom) to evade responsibility and push it to others
 hù xiāng chě pí to pass the buck / to shirk responsibility
 zī jiān to bear responsibility for sth
 guó jiā xīng wáng , pǐ fū yǒu zé The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
 chéng mén shī huǒ , yāng jí chí yú a fire in the city gates is also a calamity for the fish in the moat (idiom) / the bystander will also suffer / fig. you can't escape responsibility for your actions / ask not for whom the bell tolls - it tolls for thee
 tiān xià xīng wáng , pǐ fū yǒu zé The rise and fall of the nation concerns everyone (idiom). Everyone bears responsibility for the prosperity of society.
 shī zé breach of responsibility / failure to carry out one's duty
 hǎo hàn zuò shì , hǎo hàn dāng daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it / a true man has the courage to accept the consequences of his actions / the buck stops here
 huàn nàn jiàn qì to leave somebody holding the baby / to shrug responsibility (idiom)
 chéng tóu to take responsibility
 gǎn zuò gǎn dāng daring to act and courageous enough to take responsibility for it / a true man has the courage to accept the consequences of his actions / the buck stops here
 liáng mù beam / rafter / lintel / person able to bear heavy responsibility / mainstay (of organization) / pillar (of state)
 shuǎi bāo fu lit. to fling off a bundle / fig. to abandon one's responsibility for sth / to wash one's hands of the matter
 yíng kuī zì fù responsible for its profit and losses (of organization) / financially autonomous / personal financial responsibility
 jiān mù shepherd / Tang dynasty official with responsibility for animal husbandry / pastor (cleric in charge of a Christian parish)
 lián chǎn dào hù household responsibility system, introduced in the early 1980s, under which each rural household could freely decide what to produce and how to sell, as long as it fulfilled its quota of products to the state
 tuō xiè to evade responsibility / to shirk
 nóng cūn jiā tíng lián chǎn chéng bāo zé rèn zhì rural household contract responsibility system, PRC government policy linking rural income to productivity
 táo bì zé rèn to evade responsibility / to shirk
 dǐng dǎng to resist / to obstruct / to bear responsibility for
 qǐ yè shè huì zé rèn corporate social responsibility (CSR)
 gòng tóng zé rèn common responsibility
 zhǔ yào zé rèn main responsibility
  common but differentiated responsibility
 guǎn lǐ zé rèn management responsibility
  responsibility accounting
 xìn tuō zé rèn fiduciary responsibility
  Committee on Personal Responsibility and Financial Liability
  corporate social and environmental responsibility
  Society for Social Responsibility in Science
  Standing Committee for Personal Responsibility and Financial Liability
  Special Adviser on the Responsibility to Protect
  shared responsibility
  Investor Responsibility Research Centre
  Global Centre for the Responsibility to Protect
  corporate social responsibility
  Business Responsibility for Environmental Protection in Developing Countries: An International Workshop
  Business Responsibility for Sustainable Development
  Task Force on Responsibility and Liability regarding Transboundary Water Pollution
 guó jì zé rèn international responsibility
  common and shared responsibility
 guó jiā zé rèn State responsibility
  Draft Articles on Responsibility of States for Internationally Wrongful Acts
  responsibility centres
 shēng chǎn zhě yán shēn zé rèn extended producer responsibility
  United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes / Safe Planet Campaign
  United Nations Campaign for Responsibility on Hazardous Chemicals and Wastes / Safe Planet Campaign
  responsibility to protect
  Conference of University Presidents on the Responsibility of Universities in the Nuclear Age
  Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility
  Historical responsibility of States for the preservation of nature for present and future generations
  Educators for Social Responsibility
  corporate responsibility
  Responsibility of States for internationally wrongful acts
  Universal Movement for Scientific Responsibility
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