Responsible for 這一短語(yǔ)既可用于人，又可用于物，在句中通常做定語(yǔ)、狀語(yǔ)和表語(yǔ)，意思是“對(duì)……負(fù)責(zé)”。例如：He should be responsible for the accident.（他應(yīng)當(dāng)對(duì)這一事故負(fù)責(zé)。）Responsible for在科技英語(yǔ)中十分常見，如都譯作“對(duì)……負(fù)責(zé)”，有時(shí)則會(huì)顯得十分牽強(qiáng)，因此要加以引申。常見的譯法有以下三種：
一、譯作“擔(dān)負(fù)……”
1. Electric charges, positive and negative, which are responsible for electrical forces, can wipe one another out.
擔(dān)負(fù)電力的正負(fù)電荷是能夠相互抵消的。
2. Already responsible for many plastics, fibres and synthetic rubber, petrochemicals will play an important role in tomorrow's demand for new things.
石油化工產(chǎn)品已經(jīng)擔(dān)負(fù)起制造多種塑料、人造纖維和合成橡膠的任務(wù)，在滿足未來(lái)對(duì)新產(chǎn)品的需求方面仍將起到重要的作用。
二、譯作“引起”、“是引起……的原因”
這時(shí)的be responsible for 相當(dāng)于bring about的意思。
3. There are probably several factors responsible for water and salt retention and ascites in hepatic disease.
引起肝病患者水、鹽潴留和腹水的原因可能不止一個(gè)。
4. The stimuli believed to be responsible for secretion are vagal and humoral.
迷走神經(jīng)和體液刺激被認(rèn)為是引起分泌的原因。
5. Streprococci and staphylocci are responsible for a wide variety of infections.
鏈球菌和葡萄球菌是引起各種感染的原因。
三、譯作“由于……才……”
在這類句中，responsible for往往作表語(yǔ)，介詞for后面的賓語(yǔ)一般是動(dòng)作意義的名詞。
6. The weather was responsible for the plane's delay.
由于天氣關(guān)系飛機(jī)才誤點(diǎn)了。
7. The attachment of atoms of different kinds to each other is responsible for compounds having characteristic properties different from those of the elements of which they are made.
由于不同種原子的相互結(jié)合，化合物才具有與組成該化合物的那些元素不同的特性。
一、譯作“擔(dān)負(fù)……”
1. Electric charges, positive and negative, which are responsible for electrical forces, can wipe one another out.
擔(dān)負(fù)電力的正負(fù)電荷是能夠相互抵消的。
2. Already responsible for many plastics, fibres and synthetic rubber, petrochemicals will play an important role in tomorrow's demand for new things.
石油化工產(chǎn)品已經(jīng)擔(dān)負(fù)起制造多種塑料、人造纖維和合成橡膠的任務(wù)，在滿足未來(lái)對(duì)新產(chǎn)品的需求方面仍將起到重要的作用。
二、譯作“引起”、“是引起……的原因”
這時(shí)的be responsible for 相當(dāng)于bring about的意思。
3. There are probably several factors responsible for water and salt retention and ascites in hepatic disease.
引起肝病患者水、鹽潴留和腹水的原因可能不止一個(gè)。
4. The stimuli believed to be responsible for secretion are vagal and humoral.
迷走神經(jīng)和體液刺激被認(rèn)為是引起分泌的原因。
5. Streprococci and staphylocci are responsible for a wide variety of infections.
鏈球菌和葡萄球菌是引起各種感染的原因。
三、譯作“由于……才……”
在這類句中，responsible for往往作表語(yǔ)，介詞for后面的賓語(yǔ)一般是動(dòng)作意義的名詞。
6. The weather was responsible for the plane's delay.
由于天氣關(guān)系飛機(jī)才誤點(diǎn)了。
7. The attachment of atoms of different kinds to each other is responsible for compounds having characteristic properties different from those of the elements of which they are made.
由于不同種原子的相互結(jié)合，化合物才具有與組成該化合物的那些元素不同的特性。