【duty音标】 英[ˈdju:ti] 美[ˈdu:ti]
【单词释义】 duty是什么意思：
n.职责，责任；义务；职责或工作；税收
[单词分级] 中考英语词汇
[单词复数] duties
【duty形近词/近似词】
beauty n.美人；美好
【常用短语】
do your duty 承担责任;尽你的义务
off duty 下班；不值班
on duty 值班，上班
sense of duty n. 责任感；责任心
stamp duty 印花税
【单词例句】
◇ Now the old lady was sick, and it was said she could not recover. She must be nursed and waited upon, and there was no one whose duty it was so much as Karen's.
现在老太太病得躺下来了；大家都说她大概是不会好了。她得有人看护和照料，但这种工作不应该是别人而应该是由珈伦做的。
---- The Red Shoes
◇ I want a wife who will not bother me with rambling complaints about a wife's duties. But I want a wife who will listen to me when I feel the need to explain a rather difficult point I have come across in my course of studies. And I want a wife who type my papers for me when I have written them.
我想要个妻，她不得对我唠唠叨叨，抱怨不已。而我学习上遇到困难时向她述说，她可得听，我写的论文还待她来誊清。
---- I Want a Wife