- 1n/ˌɑːbləˈɡeɪʃən/ · /ˌɒbləˈɡeɪʃən/義務；責任
a duty to do something, because of a law, a rule, or a promise you made.
「obligation」是「因為法律、規定，或自己答應過的事，而必須去做」的義務感，比 responsibility（比較廣義的責任感）更強調「外在的力量」要求你做——像是契約、法律，或你自己給出的承諾。常見句型是 have an obligation to do something 或 be under an obligation to do something，後面接原形動詞（to V）。
示範例句 · Example
Everyone who signs the contract has an obligation to follow the safety rules.
中文翻譯每個簽了合約的人都有義務去遵守安全規則。
常見搭配
have an obligation to do something
有義務做某件事
to have to do something because it is your duty
Doctors have an obligation to help anyone who is badly hurt.
be under an obligation to do something
有義務、有責任去做某件事
to have to do something, especially because you promised or agreed to
Anyone who rents this room is under an obligation to keep it clean.
meet an obligation
履行義務
to do what you promised or are required to do
The company worked hard to meet its obligations to its workers.
moral obligation
道德上的義務
something you feel you should do because it is the right thing, not because of a law
She felt a moral obligation to help her neighbor after the storm.
under no obligation to do something
沒有義務做某件事
not required to do something
You are under no obligation to answer if you don't want to.
core核心畫面
Picture the thing itself that ties you: the signed contract in the drawer, the promise you made last week. An obligation is that tie seen as a thing you carry — you can have one, meet one, or be free of one.
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
obligationnoun/ˌɒb.lɪˈɡeɪ.ʃn̩/
- 1
The act of binding oneself by a social, legal, or moral tie to someone.
- 2
A social, legal, or moral requirement, duty, contract, or promise that compels someone to follow or avoid a particular course of action.
- I feel I'm under obligation to attend my sister's wedding, even though we have a very frosty relationship.
- The only responsibility and power of the Vice President under the Constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast. The Constitution does not empower the Vice President to alter in any way the votes that have been cast, either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise. How the Vice President discharges this constitutional obligation is not a question of his loyalty to the President any more than it would be a test of a President’s loyalty to his Vice President whether the President assented to the impeachment and prosecution of his Vice President for the commission of high crimes while in office. No President and no Vice President would—or should—consider either event as a test of political loyalty of one to the other. And if either did, he would have to accept that political loyalty must yield to constitutional obligation. Neither the President nor the Vice President has any higher loyalty than to the Constitution.
- 3
A course of action imposed by society, law, or conscience by which someone is bound or restricted.
- 4
lawA legal agreement stipulating a specified action or forbearance by a party to the agreement; the document containing such agreement.
- The Pupil after his Pupillarity, had granted a Diſcharge to one of the Co-tutors, which did extinguiſh the whole Debt of that Co-tutor, and conſequently of all the reſt, they being all correi debendi, lyable by one individual Obligation, which cannot be Diſcharged as to one, and ſtand as to all the reſt.
- 5
Reason for being obliged to, that is, grateful for, something.
- I am indebted to several friends for notes, observations, and correspondence on this subject, more especially to one, referred to as "Z.," and to another as "Q.," who have obtained a considerable number of reliable histories for me, and have also supplied many valuable notes [...]. Other obligations are mentioned in the text.
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