剑桥高阶英汉双解词典 - liability collapse

liability
[UK]/ˌlaɪ.ə'bɪl.ɪ.ti/ [US]/-ə.tˌi/
noun
RESPONSIBILITY 责任
A [U]
* when you are legally responsible for something
（法律上对某事物的）责任，义务

1. He denies any liability for the damage caused.
他对造成的损失拒绝承担任何责任。

liabilities [plural] specialized
* debts
债务，负债

1. The business has liabilities of £2 million.
该公司负债达200万英镑。
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[UK]/ˌlaɪ.ə'bɪl.ɪ.ti/ [US]/-ə.tˌi/
noun
RISK 风险
[S]
* something or someone that causes you a lot of trouble, often when they should be helping you
麻烦，累赘

1. After a certain age, a car's just a liability.
汽车在使用了一定年限后就会变成一个累赘。

2. Sue always manages to upset somebody when we go out - she's a real liability.
我们出去玩时，休总是让人扫兴——她真是个累赘。

柯林斯COBUILD高阶英汉双解学习词典 - liability collapse

liability ★★☆☆☆
1.N-COUNT 可数名词累赘；负累；负担 If you say that someone or something is a liability, you mean that they cause a lot of problems or embarrassment.

【搭配模式】：usu sing

  • As the president's prestige continues to fall, they're clearly beginning to consider him a liability.

    随着总统的声望持续下跌，他们显然开始视他为负累。

  • ...what was once a vote catching policy, is now a political liability.

    这一曾经吸引选票的政策，如今成了政治上的负累。

2.N-COUNT 可数名词负债；债务 A company's or organization's liabilities are the sums of money which it owes.

【搭配模式】：usu pl

【FIELD标签】：BUSINESS or LEGAL 商或法律

  • The company had assets of $138 million and liabilities of $120.5 million.

    这家公司资产为1.38亿美元，负债为1.205亿美元。

3.See also:liable;

    牛津高阶英汉双解 第7版 - liability collapse

    liability
    li·abil·ity / 7laiE5bilEti / noun (pl. -ies)
    1. [U] ~ (for sth) | ~ (to do sth) the state of being legally responsible for sth
       (法律上对某事物的)责任,义务:
       The company cannot accept liability for any damage caused by natural disasters.
       该公司对自然灾害造成的任何损失概不承担责任。
    2. [C, usually sing.] (informal) a person or thing that causes you a lot of problems
       惹麻烦的人(或事):
       Since his injury, Jones has become more of a liability than an asset to the team.
       琼斯负伤以来,与其说他是全队的骨干倒不如说他已成为队里的累赘。
    3. [C, usually pl.] the amount of money that a person or company owes
       欠债；负债；债务:
       The company is reported to have liabilities of nearly $90 000.
       据说公司负债近 9 万元。
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    牛津搭配语词典 第2版 - liability collapse

    liability noun

    1. responsibility

    • ADJECTIVE full | legal | strict | criminal

    • VERB + LIABILITY have They have no legal ~ for damage to customers' possessions. | accept, acknowledge, admit, assume | deny | limit | avoid

    • PREPOSITION ~ for They have denied ~ for the accident.

    2. liabilities money owed

    • ADJECTIVE substantial | financial, tax an assessment of the company's financial liabilities

    • VERB + LIABILITIES have | take on, take over He wants to know the precise amount of the liabilities he is taking over. | cover, discharge, meet There is enough money to cover existing liabilities. | reduce

    • PREPOSITION ~ to The company has liabilities to its employees.

    牛津英语同义词学习词典 - liability collapse

    liability noun
    ⇨ debt (have liabilities of $90 000) ⇨ responsibility (accept liability)

    新牛津英语同义词词典 - liability collapse

    liability

    noun
    1 journalists cannot avoid liability for defamation merely by avoiding the naming of names
    ACCOUNTABILITY ,
    RESPONSIBILITY , legal responsibility, answerability; incrimination, blame, blameworthiness, culpability, guilt, onus, fault; informal the rap.
    -opposite(s): IMMUNITY, UNACCOUNTABILITY.

    2 they have some huge assets and some equally big liabilities
    OBLIGATION , duty; financial obligation, debt, indebtedness, debit; {liabilities}
    DEBTS , arrears, dues.
    -opposite(s): ASSET.

    3 she had come to be seen as an electoral liability
    HINDRANCE , encumbrance, burden, handicap, nuisance, inconvenience; obstacle, impediment, drawback, drag, disadvantage, weakness, shortcoming, problem, weak spot/point; millstone round one's neck, stumbling block, cross to bear, cross; albatross, Achilles heel; informal minus, fly in the ointment; archaic cumber.
    -opposite(s): ASSET, ADVANTAGE.

    4 insanity can reduce or even remove an individual's liability to punishment
    SUSCEPTIBILITY , proneness, vulnerability, aptness; likelihood, chance, possibility, risk, threat.
    -opposite(s): IMMUNITY.

    5 such liability to damage is not peculiar to steel made by the Bessemer process
    VULNERABILITY , tendency, predisposition, propensity, disposition.

    词源记忆 - liability collapse

    liability 责任，义务
    来自liable, 有责任的。