call to account

短语

责问

发音

AU

词形变化

called to account calling to account calls to account 三单 calls to account calling to account 现在分词 called to account 过去式 called to account 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To challenge or contest; to hold answerable for something.

    习语

    1934, Ernest Bramah, The Bravo of London "But, Doctor, aren't we to do anything to discover the culprits? A harmless dog is killed, an inoffensive man's reason, if not his life, endangered. Surely someone ought to be called to account—"