accountability, leave one cold, enlarging/ wide authority

"This scandal can’t be hidden away. Republicans in Congress can’t save Trump, his attorney general can’t save him, and no amount of desperate tweets can save him. Accountability is on its way, and it’s arriving very soon," Paul Waldman writes in Opinions.




 Our tour guide, the Dickensian-named Richard Walker, held Beatrice at rapt attention when he stuck to the subject at hand. (Digressions into Bridget Jones territory left her cold.) 

Morsi Defends Wide Authority as Turmoil Rises in Egypt

By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

CAIRO — President Mohamed Morsi vowed to proceed with a vote on an Islamist-backed constitution that has set off deadly battles between his supporters and opponents.

作者在Bureaucracy: What Government Agencies Do and Why T...新版序言一段界定:

...  creating reorganization task forces that were chiefly devoted to expanding accountability, increasing efficiency, and enlarging presidential authority ( By accountability I mean increasing  policy implementers' responsiveness to higher officials who must take responsibility for that policy.) ......曾建立重組工作的課題組，主要致力於拓展責任感，提高效率和擴大總統權力。
 (通過責任感我希望傳達的意思是，提高政策執行者對主管貫徹該政策的高級官員的敏感性。)


  ......曾建立重組工作的任務小組，主要致力於增廣責任感，提高效率和擴大總統權力。
 (我在上文的"責任感"的意思是，提高政策執行者對於負責貫徹該政策的高級官員更能應答。)

"敏感性"固然可表示對人的RESPONSIVENESS ，不過它已有負面的意思。

Google is now swinging open the gates to Google+, its invite-only social network, in the hopes that the company's considerable worldwide clout will help it unseat Facebook. The fledgling social network is doing much right, like hosting interactive videoconferencing "hangouts," considering privacy measures (even if belatedly), and offering the ability to edit posts. However, some decisions and omissions leave us a little cold.

leave someone cold

Fail to interest someone:the Romantic poets left him cold

leave one cold

Disappoint one, fail to interest one. For example, This book leaves me cold. This expression, first recorded in 1853, employs cold in the sense of "unenthusiastic" or "indifferent," a usage dating from the late 1100s.

Church of England Seeks Accountability From News Corp. in Hacking Scandal The church's investment arm, which owns shares in the News Corporation, sent a letter to Rupert Murdoch asking that senior executives be held accountable for failures at The News of the World newspaper.

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當人們對某字如 accountability不太懂的時候 有時候再找另一字 如"當責"等翻譯它 然後揚揚得意......

accountable(ə-koun'tə-bəl)
adj.

1. Liable to being called to account; answerable. See synonyms at responsible.
2. That can be explained: an accountable phenomenon.

accountability ac·count'a·bil'i·ty or ac·count'a·ble·ness n.
accountably ac·count'a·bly adv.

accountability[ac・count・a・bil・i・ty]

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1 説明責任, 義務；会計責任. ▼一般の責任はresponsibility.

2 《教育》成績責任：生徒の成績によって学校の予算や教師の給料が左右される方式.