| 释义 |
Definition of unaccountable in English: unaccountableadjectiveʌnəˈkaʊntəb(ə)lˌənəˈkaʊn(t)əb(ə)l 1Unable to be explained. 不能解释的，难以说明的 a strange and unaccountable fact 奇怪而难以解释的行为。 Example sentencesExamples - Stern pronouncements are hurled down like thunderbolts from Zeus, and, like Zeus, their authors are totally unaccountable to mere human beings.
- Online petitions don't talk to leadership: leadership ignores them precisely because they are so unaccountable.
- It is centrally controlled and unaccountable except through a disembodied digital voting system administered by the central authority.
- But at the High Court this month he won what can only be described as a pyrrhic victory, ending his battle against what he and many others see as the closed and unaccountable world of private hospitals.
- Those issues have exposed the unaccountable nature of our Government.
- Getting your period just seems like such a bizarre, unaccountable thing before you've gotten it - I just wanted to know what it was like.
- The disfigurement of memory occurs, then, as a story that has the potential to exceed its subject's control, to return an endless number of times, in unaccountable and unpredictable ways.
- His Honour Justice Lee, for reasons which with great respect are unaccountable, describes them as inevitable.
- The mechanism for the unusual journey is a simple, unaccountable magical moment.
- A lot of weird, unaccountable things happen over the course of the film.
- A shadowy figure has appeared on the horizon to put these democratically unaccountable Johnny Come Latelys in their place.
- And looking over the schedule I am unaccountable for my activities for the next hour, though I do remember talking to Rob Thornton during Marcus Schmickler's set.
- They're quite unaccountable and irresponsible when it comes to litigation, and they can fight on on the taxpayers' money indefinitely.
- Yet this idea of genius, reinforced by our image of it, implies an acceptance of the influence upon creativity of a divine or otherworldly thing, of the transfiguring influence of something unaccountable and mysterious.
- She also makes unaccountable remarks about African-American visual artists.
- Because of some unaccountable glitch, Paul is unable to get the following item posted this morning.
- For some strange, unaccountable reason, I didn't make the cut.
- This act represents a case of police power that is unaccountable and arbitrary.
- Yet once, by a strange and unaccountable impulse, he pressed it with his lips.
- Do you think he is doing any better than the 19 of his time-serving, unaccountable colleagues?
- Are we, the North Yorkshire council tax payers, paying heavily for the security of secretive, unaccountable American bases while neglecting our own.
- There are plenty of jokes in the show and there's plenty of McKenna's whit - but there's something else that's really unaccountable - magic.
Synonyms inexplicable, unexplainable, insoluble, unsolvable, incomprehensible, beyond comprehension, beyond understanding, unfathomable, impenetrable, puzzling, perplexing, baffling, bewildering, mystifying, mysterious, arcane, inscrutable, peculiar, unusual, curious, strange, freak, freakish, unparalleled, queer, odd, bizarre, extraordinary, astonishing, obscure, abstruse, enigmatic informal weird, fluky, freaky, spooky British informal rum North American informal off the wall archaic wildering - 1.1 (of a person or their behaviour) unpredictable and strange.
（人，行为）莫名其妙的 he was not only the most charismatic man she'd ever met, but also the most complex and unaccountable Example sentencesExamples - These countries demonstrate that sanctions often mean little to unaccountable, despotic, governments.
- And most of all, there is the unaccountable cruelty, incompetence and stupidity of people.
- The clause is a powerful tool, created to protect the will of the people from unaccountable judges, and give the members of our federation a little working room to make laws that reflect their community values.
- They also point out that these drivers are unaccountable and untraceable.
- When public services are privatized they are more unaccountable; citizens put both long-term rate stability and proper equipment maintenance at risk.
- In a representational democracy we demand that the political process be open to public scrutiny and generally free from private, particularistic, unseen, and unaccountable actions.
- Motivation is one of the movie's troubling weaknesses - Cordier's shift in behavior is, to tell the truth, sudden and unaccountable.
- O'Connor, for my taste, is the great artist of the group, with a purity and intensity of ambition that is utterly idiosyncratic and unaccountable.
- Furthermore, rods are machine-made and optically homogeneous, in contrast to the spheres, which are hand-made and may possess unaccountable individual differences.
- De Havilland made the point that bloggers are unaccountable, and suggested that the influence of blogging was being overplayed, mostly by bloggers themselves.
- Or could it be that it was a contest judged by one thoroughly unaccountable person?
- What they do with our data is important but they're unaccountable and secretive.
- But his hearings raise the question of why such critical areas have remained so… unaccountable.
- The act occurs as a crazy, unaccountable event which, precisely, is not willed.
- Water supply, services and ancillary sectors are too important to be put into the hands of people whose main concern is the profit margin, and will leave us with a fragmented and unaccountable industry.
- She criticised the fact that both external and internal auditors, as well as senior management, had proved unaccountable.
- He is unaccountable, except in those rare cases when he bats in interleague games played under National League rules.
Synonyms strange, unusual, peculiar, odd, funny, curious, bizarre, weird, uncanny, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, off-centre
2(of a person, organization, or institution) not required or expected to justify actions or decisions; not responsible for results or consequences. （人，组织，机构）无辩解责任的；不负责任的 there are enormous risks in leaving such agencies uncontrolled and unaccountable a powerful and unaccountable institution Example sentencesExamples - An even larger number of Americans with disparate views on the subject of homosexuality object to the idea that shared social norms can be revamped unilaterally by unelected, unaccountable judges.
- The research, prevention and treatment of cancer is too important to be left in the hands of a small number of unaccountable scientists, funded by industry money and the voluntary sector.
- The true scandal - is that ministers appoint these people [quangocrats], give them considerable powers, and yet it seems that ministers are completely unaccountable for what they do once they have been appointed.
- Many different cultures struggled to come up with the means of providing some kind of realistic feedback to such unaccountable leaders.
- In England, the king is a perpetual magistrate; and it is a maxim which has obtained for the sake of the public peace, that he is unaccountable for his administration, and his person sacred.
- I noticed they were experiencing the same things as many Papuans - they were in debt to rapacious moneylenders and held to ransom by unaccountable officials.
- However, minor infractions have gone unpunished leading to the idea that we are unaccountable for our actions.
- They argue that the charter is un-democratic because it supposedly takes power away from the democratically elected representatives and gives it to unaccountable judges.
- We already have in the him an unelected and virtually unaccountable individual who wields far too much power and influence.
- This does not, however, justify the enterprise of crafting law for others to whom they are completely unaccountable.
- In the absence of effective laws as in the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, they are totally unaccountable.
- This caricature of socialism is played up by wealthy businessmen whose enterprises are run from top to bottom by unaccountable officials, stamping their prejudices and favouritisms on the people who do the work.
- There will be even less democracy, as more judges and other unaccountable figures are given authority to supervise elected politicians.
- Often they are unaccountable to voters - who rarely turn out for elections affecting the districts even when they have the opportunity - or even to the governments that created them.
- He is absolutely unaccountable and is never second guessed.
- The lack of transparency in the city budget has proved how the country has seriously deteriorated due to unaccountable leaders.
- The claimed input of non-elected people from outside of the Cabinet also undermines the democratic process as such people are unaccountable to the electorate.
- You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
- But who wants a world order shaped by these unelected, unaccountable characters?
- Today, as an unelected official, he is unaccountable and irremovable.
- They are largely unaccountable to the people whose lives they affect, and deaf to non-economic issues.
- This should also be the last election decided by the whims and conflicts of interest of 32 publicly unaccountable officials.
- Although they dictate NHS policy on cancer, they are unaccountable to parliament or the public.
- Instead they will leap at the chance to hand matters over to an inquiry, where a judge or some other apparently neutral, unaccountable figure can spend months or years establishing ‘the truth’, Solomon-style.
Synonyms not responsible, unanswerable, not answerable, not liable free, clear, exempt, immune out of control, unsupervised
Derivativesnounʌnəkaʊntəˈbɪlɪtiˌənəˌkaʊn(t)əˈbɪlədi Do let it give you a bit of appreciation for what our thin blue line does for us every day, even if this department's less-than-stellar moments tend toward arrogant unaccountability. Example sentencesExamples - This is the first stage in becoming less the victims of government unaccountability and demanding the facts on what and where all taxation is spent.
- Because of the mystery surrounding the unaccountability of funds - it tars everybody.
- But it has a ring of truth to me, mixing, as it does, ugliness with disorganization and a spiralling cycle of unaccountability.
- When David took over as legal director of MI5 and MI6, part of his job was curbing the cult of secrecy and unaccountability in intelligence work, and putting the agencies' information-gathering on a proper legal footing.
- And they have the added advantage of unaccountability - they don't have to live with the consequences of encouraging separatist claims.
noun adverbʌnəˈkaʊntəbliˌənəˈkaʊn(t)əbli Amy seems unaccountably to have slipped in Lee's estimation, for in June 1887, again in a letter to her mother, she had said of her that she was one of the five people in London she ‘was most pleased to see’. Example sentencesExamples - Williams sometimes seems to be testing her skills by writing from a basket of words selected in advance: the word ‘sandbag’ keeps unaccountably floating to the surface.
- And while it's good to see Rocky Elsom airlifted from the abyss to which he had suddenly been unaccountably assigned, what exactly did John Roe do last week to go from upstart entry straight back to Coventry?
- The interviews she has given in advance of the book make fascinating reading, and will strike a chord with the thousands of women who, like me, have woken up one morning to find themselves suddenly and unaccountably middle-aged.
- He confessed, ‘as an industry, many of us have been remarkably, unaccountably complacent.’
Definition of unaccountable in US English: unaccountableadjectiveˌənəˈkaʊn(t)əb(ə)lˌənəˈkoun(t)əb(ə)l 1Unable to be explained. 不能解释的，难以说明的 a strange and unaccountable fact 奇怪而难以解释的行为。 Example sentencesExamples - His Honour Justice Lee, for reasons which with great respect are unaccountable, describes them as inevitable.
- For some strange, unaccountable reason, I didn't make the cut.
- Online petitions don't talk to leadership: leadership ignores them precisely because they are so unaccountable.
- Those issues have exposed the unaccountable nature of our Government.
- Yet this idea of genius, reinforced by our image of it, implies an acceptance of the influence upon creativity of a divine or otherworldly thing, of the transfiguring influence of something unaccountable and mysterious.
- The disfigurement of memory occurs, then, as a story that has the potential to exceed its subject's control, to return an endless number of times, in unaccountable and unpredictable ways.
- They're quite unaccountable and irresponsible when it comes to litigation, and they can fight on on the taxpayers' money indefinitely.
- Stern pronouncements are hurled down like thunderbolts from Zeus, and, like Zeus, their authors are totally unaccountable to mere human beings.
- The mechanism for the unusual journey is a simple, unaccountable magical moment.
- Getting your period just seems like such a bizarre, unaccountable thing before you've gotten it - I just wanted to know what it was like.
- A lot of weird, unaccountable things happen over the course of the film.
- Are we, the North Yorkshire council tax payers, paying heavily for the security of secretive, unaccountable American bases while neglecting our own.
- It is centrally controlled and unaccountable except through a disembodied digital voting system administered by the central authority.
- Yet once, by a strange and unaccountable impulse, he pressed it with his lips.
- Because of some unaccountable glitch, Paul is unable to get the following item posted this morning.
- This act represents a case of police power that is unaccountable and arbitrary.
- Do you think he is doing any better than the 19 of his time-serving, unaccountable colleagues?
- But at the High Court this month he won what can only be described as a pyrrhic victory, ending his battle against what he and many others see as the closed and unaccountable world of private hospitals.
- There are plenty of jokes in the show and there's plenty of McKenna's whit - but there's something else that's really unaccountable - magic.
- She also makes unaccountable remarks about African-American visual artists.
- A shadowy figure has appeared on the horizon to put these democratically unaccountable Johnny Come Latelys in their place.
- And looking over the schedule I am unaccountable for my activities for the next hour, though I do remember talking to Rob Thornton during Marcus Schmickler's set.
Synonyms inexplicable, unexplainable, insoluble, unsolvable, incomprehensible, beyond comprehension, beyond understanding, unfathomable, impenetrable, puzzling, perplexing, baffling, bewildering, mystifying, mysterious, arcane, inscrutable, peculiar, unusual, curious, strange, freak, freakish, unparalleled, queer, odd, bizarre, extraordinary, astonishing, obscure, abstruse, enigmatic - 1.1 (of a person or their behavior) unpredictable and strange.
（人，行为）莫名其妙的 Example sentencesExamples - And most of all, there is the unaccountable cruelty, incompetence and stupidity of people.
- These countries demonstrate that sanctions often mean little to unaccountable, despotic, governments.
- Motivation is one of the movie's troubling weaknesses - Cordier's shift in behavior is, to tell the truth, sudden and unaccountable.
- When public services are privatized they are more unaccountable; citizens put both long-term rate stability and proper equipment maintenance at risk.
- The act occurs as a crazy, unaccountable event which, precisely, is not willed.
- What they do with our data is important but they're unaccountable and secretive.
- O'Connor, for my taste, is the great artist of the group, with a purity and intensity of ambition that is utterly idiosyncratic and unaccountable.
- Or could it be that it was a contest judged by one thoroughly unaccountable person?
- He is unaccountable, except in those rare cases when he bats in interleague games played under National League rules.
- She criticised the fact that both external and internal auditors, as well as senior management, had proved unaccountable.
- Furthermore, rods are machine-made and optically homogeneous, in contrast to the spheres, which are hand-made and may possess unaccountable individual differences.
- In a representational democracy we demand that the political process be open to public scrutiny and generally free from private, particularistic, unseen, and unaccountable actions.
- The clause is a powerful tool, created to protect the will of the people from unaccountable judges, and give the members of our federation a little working room to make laws that reflect their community values.
- They also point out that these drivers are unaccountable and untraceable.
- De Havilland made the point that bloggers are unaccountable, and suggested that the influence of blogging was being overplayed, mostly by bloggers themselves.
- Water supply, services and ancillary sectors are too important to be put into the hands of people whose main concern is the profit margin, and will leave us with a fragmented and unaccountable industry.
- But his hearings raise the question of why such critical areas have remained so… unaccountable.
Synonyms strange, unusual, peculiar, odd, funny, curious, bizarre, weird, uncanny, queer, unexpected, unfamiliar, abnormal, off-centre
2(of a person, organization, or institution) not required or expected to justify actions or decisions; not responsible for results or consequences. （人，组织，机构）无辩解责任的；不负责任的 Example sentencesExamples - The claimed input of non-elected people from outside of the Cabinet also undermines the democratic process as such people are unaccountable to the electorate.
- This should also be the last election decided by the whims and conflicts of interest of 32 publicly unaccountable officials.
- But who wants a world order shaped by these unelected, unaccountable characters?
- The research, prevention and treatment of cancer is too important to be left in the hands of a small number of unaccountable scientists, funded by industry money and the voluntary sector.
- The lack of transparency in the city budget has proved how the country has seriously deteriorated due to unaccountable leaders.
- Many different cultures struggled to come up with the means of providing some kind of realistic feedback to such unaccountable leaders.
- Today, as an unelected official, he is unaccountable and irremovable.
- I noticed they were experiencing the same things as many Papuans - they were in debt to rapacious moneylenders and held to ransom by unaccountable officials.
- The true scandal - is that ministers appoint these people [quangocrats], give them considerable powers, and yet it seems that ministers are completely unaccountable for what they do once they have been appointed.
- They argue that the charter is un-democratic because it supposedly takes power away from the democratically elected representatives and gives it to unaccountable judges.
- In England, the king is a perpetual magistrate; and it is a maxim which has obtained for the sake of the public peace, that he is unaccountable for his administration, and his person sacred.
- In the absence of effective laws as in the Scandinavian countries of Norway, Sweden and Denmark, they are totally unaccountable.
- This does not, however, justify the enterprise of crafting law for others to whom they are completely unaccountable.
- However, minor infractions have gone unpunished leading to the idea that we are unaccountable for our actions.
- They are largely unaccountable to the people whose lives they affect, and deaf to non-economic issues.
- You, therefore, are our supreme authority, and yet you are unaccountable to us.
- Although they dictate NHS policy on cancer, they are unaccountable to parliament or the public.
- We already have in the him an unelected and virtually unaccountable individual who wields far too much power and influence.
- An even larger number of Americans with disparate views on the subject of homosexuality object to the idea that shared social norms can be revamped unilaterally by unelected, unaccountable judges.
- He is absolutely unaccountable and is never second guessed.
- Instead they will leap at the chance to hand matters over to an inquiry, where a judge or some other apparently neutral, unaccountable figure can spend months or years establishing ‘the truth’, Solomon-style.
- There will be even less democracy, as more judges and other unaccountable figures are given authority to supervise elected politicians.
- Often they are unaccountable to voters - who rarely turn out for elections affecting the districts even when they have the opportunity - or even to the governments that created them.
- This caricature of socialism is played up by wealthy businessmen whose enterprises are run from top to bottom by unaccountable officials, stamping their prejudices and favouritisms on the people who do the work.
Synonyms not responsible, unanswerable, not answerable, not liable
|