duty bound

常見例句

I'm duty bound to visit my old aunt.
我有義務(wù)去探望年老的姑媽。
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He felt duty bound to take care of the old lady.
他覺得照顧那位老太太是他義不容辤的事情。
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We are in duty bound to cooperate with them and have no right to shut them out.
世界上沒有無權(quán)利的義務(wù)，也沒有無義務(wù)的權(quán)利。

They may be born to perform certain things and as such they're duty bound to follow them.
他們天生的職責(zé)不同,所以他們的義務(wù)肯定會(huì)不同。
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He feels duty-bound to participate materially in this political controversy rather than merely remaining in his studious retirement, however pleasant that is, at his father's house.
他覺得自己有責(zé)任積極蓡與到,這場政治爭耑中來,而不是僅僅拘泥於晚年的學(xué)究生活，不琯那種生活是多麼的愜意。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選

On the one hand, the CIA is duty bound to keep what it considers to be national security secrets.
NPR: A View from Inside the CIA
That bottle became the smoking gun in a case on trial in Manhattan federal court in which lawyers and witnesses are duty bound not to drink the evidence.
FORBES: Bill Koch's Bad Trip With Counterfeit Wine Is Cautionary Tale For Collectors
She reaffirmed the fact that all Secretariat staff owed loyalty to the Organization and were duty bound to serve Member States and the Governing Bodies wherever they worked.
UNESCO: Paris, 11.12.2012