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culpable

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adj.该责备的,有罪的,不周到的

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culpable为短语/超纲词汇

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副词:culpably 名词:culpability

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culp=blame(过失),guilt(罪过)

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blamable  faulty  guilty    

culpable


/'kʌlpəbl; `kʌlpəbl/
adj ~ (for sth) deserving blame; blameworthy 应受责备的; 难辞其咎的
*I cannot be held culpable (for their mistakes). 不能(把他们的错误)归咎于我.
* (law 律) culpable negligence, ie failure to do what one should do 应受惩罚的玩忽行为.

culpable


adj
[Date: 1200-1300; Language: Old French;Origin: coupable, from Latin culpabilis, from culpare 'to blame', from culpa 'guilt']
formal deserving blame
 Both parties were held to be to some extent culpable.
law a culpable action is one that is considered criminal
culpable homicide/negligence etc
 He pleaded guilty to culpable homicide.
>culpablyadv
>culpability [,kʌlpə'bɪlɪti/
1. Was the philosopher who refused to look through Galileo´s telescope more culpable than those who alleged that the spiral nebulae observed with Lord Rosse´s great telescope in the eighteen-forties were scratches left by the grinder?
    某位哲学家曾拒绝使用伽利略的望远镜去观察天空;到了19世纪40年代,有人硬把罗斯勋爵高倍望远镜观测到的螺旋状星云说成是磨镜工留下的磨痕。难道反对伽利略的哲学家比诋毁罗斯勋爵造谣者应受到更大的谴责吗?

2. THe man who killed children is culpable.
    杀害小孩的人应该受谴责.

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