liable
US /ˈlaɪəbəl/
・UK /ˈlaɪəbl/
A2 初級英檢高級多益
adj.形容詞容易
I am liable to sickness, because I teach sick children
adj.形容詞有責任
He is the person liable for hitting my house
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英國零食 Jaffa Cake 到底是餅乾還是蛋糕？看看官司之後法官如何判決！（A Cake or a Biscuit? - The Lengthy and Expensive Saga of the Jaffa Cake）
- when British Customs and Excise decided that Jaffa Cakes should be reclassified as chocolate-covered biscuits and, hence, be liable to the standard rate of VAT.
當英國海關與消費稅局決定 Jaffa Cakes 應該被重新歸類為巧克力覆蓋的餅乾，因此必須支付一般標準的增值稅。
- covered biscuits and hence be liable to the standard rate of VAT.
涵蓋餅乾，是以應按標準稅率繳納增值稅。
受傷的人如何尋求更進一步的懲罰？ (How Wounded People Seek Out further Punishment)
- It's just that for us, home was a place of grief and persecution. It's easy enough to see why children put up with poor treatment. They're born radically powerless. They can't run away. They are utterly at the mercy of others. They can't even think especially straight. What they must do, above all else, is adapt. Which in practice means learning to put up with poor treatment. They have to develop an advanced skill at not noticing quite how awful things are, an expertise at being unfazed by cruelty and neglect. Children in deprived circumstances tend to be geniuses at looking away, disassociating and making light of things. Of course, it might not be perfect that their father screams at them constantly, but there are some interesting shows on television and there's a really fascinating bit of the garden to explore in the morning. You can climb up the big tree and imagine it's a little house. And of course, ideally their mother wouldn't be so mocking and disloyal. But that's just the way things are, neither more or less sad than the fact it's often raining and there's a lot of homework to do. In any case, the bad treatment almost certainly has to do with something that they, the child, have done wrong. Badly treated children tend to take a compulsively generous view of those who injure them. Obviously, they aren't nasty on purpose. That would make no sense. Clearly, their ostensible brutality has sound explanations. It must be because they, the child, is in the wrong. That's why they're being neglected. That's why they've been declared fools. That's why they're being bullied. It's a great deal easier to believe that the parent is tough, yet fundamentally right, rather than gratuitously callous and unjustifiably hostile. In other words, what a bad childhood trains us to do, above all else, is to indulge meanness. The muscle that normally functions to repel attacks has had to be starved and has atrophied. In order to survive, we had to lose the ability to work out what was good and bad for us, lest we discover that we spent 18 years in the company of fiends. What this means for our futures is that we will be extremely poor at discerning when the partners we let into our lives cross the border into selfishness and malevolence. We'll continue under a narcoleptic command not to notice that we're being robbed and deceived. We'll be as blind to the blows now as we were then. For a long time, it simply won't occur to us to wonder why we've ended up paying for everything for the partner, or why they're unreliable in their promises, or constantly prioritise their friends over us, or are angrily defensive whenever we raise a complaint. We will simply, as we had to early on, fall into line and invent elaborate explanations for their behaviour. They're good, but they're tired. They're durable, but under pressure at work. They're fierce, but compensating for their childhood traumas, for which we have a lot of sympathy. Anything other than the more straightforward conclusion, we've fallen in with unconcerned egoists. We shouldn't compound our disloyalty towards ourselves by feeling, on top of everything else, ashamed for our tolerance. It isn't weakness, it's a survival strategy from childhood that served a very sensible purpose then but is liable to be ruining our lives now. To wake ourselves up, we need to consider our choices as if someone else had made them. We might wonder what we would advise a friend to do if they were in our situation. And through such a lens, we might start to perceive that the treatment we're facing isn't, as we've long thought, a sign of our partner's depth or complexity, but in the end, something much more humble, evidence that we need to get away. But this will be only a momentary liberation until we can understand the more fundamental issue, that the muscle most people use to eject poison has withered because of a distinctive history. We need to reverse the direction of our psychological fate. Our early suffering should not condemn us to yet more pain. It is what gives us an especially powerful claim on original sources of kindness, tenderness and calm.
只是對我們來說，家是一個充滿悲傷和迫害的地方。很容易理解為什麼孩子們要忍受惡劣的待遇。他們生來就毫無力量他們無法逃避。他們完全任由他人擺佈。他們甚至連思考的能力都沒有他們必須做的，最重要的，就是適應。在實踐中，這意味著要學會忍受惡劣的待遇。他們必須發展出一種高級技能，即不去注意事情有多糟糕，擅長對殘忍和忽視不為所動。生活在貧困環境中的孩子往往是睜一隻眼閉一隻眼、脫離現實和輕描淡寫的天才。當然，他們的父親經常對他們大吼大叫，這可能並不完美，但電視上有一些有趣的節目，而且早上可以去花園裡探索一個非常迷人的地方
- It's a survival strategy from childhood that served a very sensible purpose then but is liable to be ruining our lives now.
你們明明很好，卻總是「不夠親」？友情難以更深入的真相 (Why Your Friendships Don't Go Deeper)
- A key part of the art of friendship is therefore to know yourself as well as possible and then to use the data about who you are as a guide to who others are liable to be.
讓對方有機會傾訴他們的煩惱。
- A key part of the art of friendship is therefore to know yourself as well as possible and then to use the data about who you are as a guide to who others are liable to be.
是以，友誼的技巧中很重要的一環，就是盡可能地認識自己，然後運用關於你是誰的資訊，來引導別人可能成為誰。
如何建造戴森球？終極超級巨型結構！ (How to Build a Dyson Sphere - The Ultimate Megastructure)
- possibly shattering it would be liable to drift and could crash straight into the Sun a
更有可能的設計是戴森雲（戴森群） 戴森雲就是一大群圍繞太陽的太陽能板
- It would be liable to drift and could crash straight into the Sun.
這種戴森雲基本上會給人類帶來 無限的能源，但建造它並不容易
十大英雄反差爆！現實中竟是超糟糕的人！ (Top 10 Real-Life Heroes Who Turned Out to Be TERRIBLE People)
- Later developments, such as being found liable in a civil case and his infamous novel, if I Did it, where he detailed a hypothetical explanation of the deaths, turned more people against him.
後來，像是民事案件被判有罪，以及他那本臭名昭著、詳細描述了死亡假想解釋的小說《如果我這麼做了》，讓更多人反對他。
- Later developments, such as being found liable in a civil case and his infamous novel "If I Did It," where he detailed a hypothetical explanation of the deaths, turned more people against him.
壓垮他聲譽的最後一擊發生在2007年，一次未遂的搶劫導致他被判處長期監禁。
Afroman 槓上警察：原因大解密！ (Afroman vs. the Police: EXPLAINED)
- He was found not liable, and reporting said he prevailed across the deputies' claims.
高潮出現在 2026 年 3 月 18 日，當時陪審團判決 Afroman 勝訴。
- He was found not liable and reporting said he prevailed across the deputies claims.
他被判無責，報導指出他贏了所有關於警長副官的訴訟。