| 词组 | answer |
| 释义 | answer [answered, answered, answering] answer back answer back • answer sb back especially BrE to answer someone rudely or say that you disagree with them, when you should obey them and be polite to them - used especially about children speaking rudely to teachers or parents: ▪ If any of the students dared to answer back, they would be sent straight to the Principal's office. ▪ Just do as your mother tells you, and don't answer her back! ▪ The reason you like dogs is that they can't answer back. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑talk back answer for 1. answer for sth not passive if you have to answer for something bad that you have done or that has happened you are responsible for it and have to be punished for it if necessary have to/must answer for sth ▪ One day the general will have to answer for his crimes in a court of law. ▪ A manager has to answer for the team's performance - if they do badly, he's likely to be out of a job. 2. have a lot/a great deal etc to answer for to be responsible for causing a lot of trouble: ▪ The last government has a lot to answer for. ▪ I think that television has a great deal to answer for 3. I can answer for sb/sth spoken used to say that you are sure that someone can definitely be trusted to do something, or that someone definitely has a particular quality: ▪ I'm sure Jo will come. I can't answer for the others though. ▪ I can't answer for his abilities as a teacher. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑vouch for answer to 1. answer to sb/sth if you answer to someone, you have to explain the reasons for your actions to them, and they can criticize or punish you if they disapprove: ▪ Politicians have to answer to the voters at the general election. ▪ When he dies he will have to answer to God, just like the rest of us. ▪ rich entrepreneurs who answered to nobody but themselves and could do whatever they pleased 2. answer to the name of sth literary or humorous to be called a particular name, often a name that you think is unusual or humorous: ▪ They had two cats: one was called Treacle, and the other answered to the name of Faustina. ▪ an attractive well-dressed young woman answering to the name of Suzanne |
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