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In one of the oldest examples of political evasion, instead of answering the question that incriminated him Cain countered God with another. How should I know where my brother is? Am I his keeper?
Is it wrong to pay cash to the teenager who mows our lawn? Of course not. Unless I happen to know he isn’t telling the Benefits Office, in which case of course it is. But suppose I merely suspect? Or don’t think to ask? Or consider it none of my business, want to encourage him with a taste for work and would very much prefer not to take the moral high ground with someone else’s conscience?
The morality of responsibility can be far more complex than merely the law.
Friends of mine have started to wonder whether and when they should stop a parent driving. They know it’s vital for seeing people, visiting offspring, staying interested in life. Yet the parent may never even have taken a driving test and certainly wouldn’t pass one now. The state allows it: should the son or daughter prevent it – balancing the safety of strangers against the needs of the loved one?
Or the abstract principle against the immediate family. I was told I shouldn’t work for someone who had made his money in a way some considered unethical: a friend had left his employment and wouldn’t talk to me unless I did too. I scoured the scriptures, finding several passages exhorting me to work hard and support my family, and one or two telling me how to submit to an immoral boss. None suggesting I was responsible for my employer’s conduct, past or present.
Someone I was very fond of at university turned his back on Christianity because he couldn’t accept rich Christians in a world of hunger: he believed they should take responsibility for those on the other side of the world. To his credit, he went on to establish two very well-known movements combating world poverty.
Responsibility can be brutal. Kevin Carter won the world’s attention for famine with his photograph of a toddler being stalked by a vulture, as well as vociferous criticism for being a vulture himself. And indeed the Pulitzer prize. The following year his suicide note read, “I am haunted by... memories of killings and corpses and anger and pain... of starving children.”
Cain knew the answer full well. His brother Abel’s blood cried out to him from the ground. Of course he should have cared for him.
But how do we pit one responsibility against another?
They tried to trap the Rabbi with questions. Should we support an oppressive regime? or refuse to pay taxes and break the law? He didn’t evade the question. He took it further. Show me a coin. Whose image is it made in? Then give the coin to him.
Now look at yourself. Whose image are you made in? Give responsibility where responsibility is due. To Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.
And to God the things that are God’s.
We all have complicated duties to disentangle day by day. We start by knowing where our ultimate responsibility lies.
詞匯解析
fluid
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.液體；流體
adj.流動的；流暢的；不定的
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
There's some sort of sticky fluid on the kitchen floor.
廚房的地上有一種發(fā)黏的液體。
用作形容詞 (adj.)
We have not enough fluid capital.
我們沒有足夠的流動資金。
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tolerance
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
n.寬容；忍耐力；容忍；公差
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
Tolerance is another name for indifference.
寬容是不關心的別名。
She had no tolerance for jokes of any kind.
她容不得開任何玩笑。
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specially
英漢解釋
adv.特別地；專門地；尤其
參考例句
用作副詞 (adv.)
I made this specially for your birthday.
這是我特意為你生日而做的。
My dad was specially adroit at making small hand-painted ornaments.
我爸爸尤其擅長做些手工上色的小裝飾品。
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impressive
難度：3星常用詞匯，屬常用6000詞
英漢解釋
adj.給人深刻印象的
參考例句
用作形容詞 (adj.)
His collection of paintings is the most impressive.
他的繪畫收藏令人嘆為觀止。
Their success is all the more impressive when you consider the efforts they've made.
如果你考慮到他們所付出的努力,你就會覺得他們的成功真的很了不起。
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blast
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.爆炸；巨響；一陣(強風)；嚴厲的批評；<美俚>愉快的經(jīng)歷
v.爆破；摧毀；發(fā)出巨響；用力撞擊；批評
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
27 school children were injured in the blast.
27名學齡兒童在爆炸中受了傷。
用作動詞 (v.)
A massive car bomb blasted the police headquarters.
一個巨大的汽車炸彈在警局總部爆炸。
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comment
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
n.注釋；評論；閑話
v.評論；注釋
參考例句
用作名詞 (n.)
The comment is recorded in the event log.
此注釋將記錄在事件日志中。
用作動詞 (v.)
He commented that it was an excellent film.
他評論這電影很精彩。
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cancel
難度：4星核心詞匯，屬常用3000詞
英漢解釋
v.取消；作廢；注銷；抵消；刪除
n.取消；刪除
參考例句
用作動詞 (v.)
The match had to be cancelled due to the bad weather.
比賽因天氣不好只得取消。
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