英语释义

1. conduct due to parents and superiors respect
filial duty and obedience
— John Locke

2. obligatory tasks, conduct, service, or functions that arise from one's position (as in life or in a group)
was his duty to support his family Her primary duty at the meeting was to take attendance. performs a variety of administrative duties

3. assigned service or business
was put on kitchen duty jury duty

4. active military service
returning from duty overseas

5. a period of being on duty
report for duty at 7 a.m.

6. a moral or legal obligation
felt it was their duty to help

7. the force of moral obligation
will be ready when duty calls

8. tax especially a tax on imports
a 15 percent duty

9. work sense 1c

10. the service required (as of an electric machine) under specified conditions

11. functional application use
got double duty out of the trip

12. use as a substitute
making the word do duty for the thing
— Edward Sapir

13. free from assignment or responsibility
a police officer who was off duty at the time

14. engaged in or responsible for an assigned task or duty
not allowed to take personal calls while on duty

15. done as a duty
pay a duty call on her elderly aunt

16. being on duty assigned to specified tasks or functions
the duty officer

17. something that is done as part of a job

18. something that you must do because it is morally right or because the law requires it

19. active military service

20. something a person feels he or she ought to do because it is morally right
Dad says it's his duty to take care of Grandma.

21. something a person is required to do by law
jury duty

22. an action done as part of a job or position
a principal's duties

23. the time during which a person must do his or her job
The police officer was on duty.

24. active military service
He returned from duty overseas.

25. a tax especially on imports into a country

26. tasks, service, or functions that arise from one's position
performing a police officer's duties also a period of being on duty — see also jury duty

27. an obligation assumed (as by contract) or imposed by law to conduct oneself in conformance with a certain standard or to act in a particular way
duty of good faith a duty to warn of danger — see also public duty doctrine, special duty doctrine — duty of candor \ -​?kan-​d?r \ a duty obligating directors of a corporation to disclose all material facts known to them about a transaction when they are seeking shareholder approval

28. a duty to use due care toward others in order to protect them from unnecessary risk of harm

29. a duty obligating a labor union to represent the employees in its collective bargaining unit fairly and in good faith

30. a duty obligating directors of a corporation to refrain from using their positions to further their own interests rather than the interests of the shareholders (as by self-dealing or fraud)

31. a duty obligating a fiduciary (as an agent or trustee) to act with loyalty and honesty and in a manner consistent with the best interests of the beneficiary of the fiduciary relationship (as a principal or trust beneficiary)

32. tax especially a tax on imports

33. not engaged in a duty
a police officer who is off duty

34. engaged in a duty

片语

official duties公务，公职

local duties地方税

excise duties[税收] 消费税

antisubsidy duties反补贴税

duties and taxes税捐

stamp duties[税收] 印花税（stamp duty的复数）

dumping Duties反倾销税

Primary Duties主要职责

oil duties石油进口税

imperfect duties不完全义务

reciprocal duties互惠关税

英汉例句

• a citizen must not be relieved from fulfilling the fundamental duties of citizens.

  一个公民不能不履行公民的基本义务。

• at this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words i use, but by the history we have seen together.

  在这一次也是第二次聚会上，我们的职责不是由我所使用的文字而是由我们所共同目睹的历史所决定的。

• duties for network and security controls of virtual machines may not be well separated.

  对虚拟机的网络和安全控制职责可能没有很好地分隔。

• i was a research student at that time with no other duties except research.

  我当时是一个研究生，除了做研究没有其它的义务。

• i shall forthwith commence the duties of the high trust to which you have called me.

  现在我就将开始你们召唤我上任的被赋予如此高度信任的职务。

• their argument for killing goes like this: one of a doctor’s duties is to prevent suffering; sometimes that is all there is left for him to do, and killing is the only way to do it.

  他们赞成医生杀死病人的理由是：医生的职责之一就是使病人免遭痛苦，这是医生所做的全部事情，而杀死病人则是做到这一点的惟一办法。

• he wrote once that, 「the chief thing is to know your duties and our edicts by heart and not put off things until tomorrow, like his son did.

  他曾经这样写道,」最要紧的事就是牢记我们的职责和法令,并且不把今天能做的事拖延到明天去做",他儿子就是这么拖沓的

• looking at the continuation of the verse, of the passage, we have some idea because humans, we see, are going to be charged with specific duties towards, and rights over, the created world.

  让我们来看这一节还讲了什么，这一章还有什么，我们便会有一些想法，因为我们知道人类将会,被赋予一些职责和权利来管理被创造的世界。

• as a male, he assumed all his duties he should assume.

  作为一名男性，他承担了他所有应该承担的职责。

• china imposed duties yesterday on imports of certain specialty steel products from the us and russia, in the latest sign of trade tensions between beijing and its main trading partners.

  中国昨日对从美国和俄罗斯进口的某些特种钢材开征关税，这是表明北京方面与其主要贸易伙伴贸易紧张的最新迹象。

• some philosophers argue that rights exist only within a social contract,as part of an exchange of duties and entitlements.

  有些哲学家论证说，权利只存在在于社会契约中，是责任与权益相交换的一部分。

• now that she came here, she fulfilled her duties well.

  既然她来到了这里，她就很好地履行她的职责。

• after all, he's still the governor and is innocent until presumed guilty, so under law he should be able to carry out all the normal duties of his office until convicted.

  毕竟在他仍旧是美国州长，并且在被定罪之前，是无辜清白的。因此，根据法律规定，在他的罪名成立之前，他都有权利执行所有日常职责。

• in the awful week between the crash and the funeral, i carried on with my duties as best i could.

  在飞机失事和举行葬礼那极度糟糕的一周里，我尽可能好好地履行了自己的职责。

相似词

assessment评定；估价

imposition征收；强加；欺骗；不公平的负担

impost通过需付款数来（对进口货物）归类

levy征收；征兵，征税

tax(Tax) （美、荷、奥、印、俄、德）塔克斯（人名）