answer n. 1.回答,答复。 2.解答,答案。 3.答辩,抗辩。 4.报复。 an answer to a question 某问题的解答。 have no answer to (sb.'s letter) 无回音[回信]。 in answer to …以回答,为答复(抗议等)而。 one who knows all the answers 〔美俚〕万事通;老世故。 The answer's a lemon. 〔回答荒唐提问时用语〕你这个(可笑的)问题,无法回答;废话! vt. 1.答,回答,答复;答应。 2.解答,答辩。 3.报复。 4.适合;符合。 5.尽(责),偿(债)。 6.响应。 answer a charge 对控告做出答辩。 answer a debt 偿还债务。 answer a letter 回信。 answer a riddle 解谜。 answer blows with blows 以眼还眼,以牙还牙。 answer the bell [door] 应声开门。 vi. 1.回答;答辩,辩解。 2.负责,保证;抵偿。 3.适合;符合,一致。 4.见效,成功。 answer (to) the purpose of... 可用作…。 Gypsum answers as manure. 石膏可作肥料。 Everything answered. 事事顺利[如愿]。answer for 负…的责任,保证;偿(罪),负责(受处分);代(被问人)回答(I'll answer for her safety. 我将为她的安全负责。 answer for a crime 负罪责。 I won't answer for what I'll be doing. 我就老实不客气了)。 answer to 回答;符合。 answer to the name of 叫做,名叫(The dog answers to the name of John. 这只狗叫做约翰)。 answer up 应答快(answer up to a question 立刻回答问题)。
answer for 保证,负责; 对…负有责任; 对负责; 对…负责;保证;起…作用; 对…负责;符合…; 为……负责任
When i asked him point-blank what he was doing on the premises, he avoided giving a direct answer . 当我直截了当地问他在房子里干什么的时候,他支支吾吾不肯直接回答。
He gave a direct answer to my question 他对于我的问题直接作出了回答。
Give me a direct answer , and stop evading the issue 给我直接的答案,并且停止逃避这个问题。
Give me a direct answer , and stop evade the issue 给我一个直截了当的回答,不要回避这一问题。
Quite frankly , i do not have a direct answer for you 相当坦率地说,我没有一个直接的答案给你。
Give me a direct answer , and stop evading the issue 给我一个直截了当的回答,不要回避这一问题。
He gave the boss a direct answer 他给了老板一个直接的答案。
He avoided a direct answer 他避免直接回答。
Prince vassily had brought his son obviously with the intention of making an offer , and probably that day or the next he would ask for a direct answer 瓦西里公爵把他的儿子带来了,很明显是有求婚的打算,也许就是今天或明天要求率直的回答。
Lady catherine seemed quite astonished at not receiving a direct answer ; and elizabeth suspected herself to be the first creature who had ever dared to trifle with so much dignified impertinence 咖苔琳夫人没有得到直截了当的回答,显得很惊奇伊丽莎白觉得敢于和这种没有礼貌的富贵太太开玩笑,恐怕要推她自己为第一个人。