duties

基本解释

You must acquaint with your new duties.
你必须熟悉你的新职责。
A citizen must not be relieved from fulfilling the fundamental duties of citizens.
一个公民不能不履行公民的基本义务。
At this second gathering, our duties are defined not by the words I use, but by the history we have seen together.
在这一次也是第二次聚会上，我们的职责不是由我所使用的文字而是由我们所共同目睹的历史所决定的。

"But what will my duties be? Do I have to personally reject these three thousand good-for-nothings you speak of?
The gods are very unhappy because they have now been assigned specific duties in the maintenance of the cosmos.
众神们因为被指派了任务而闷闷不乐,他们都有具体的工作来维持宇宙的运行。
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Women bear children. Well, around that fact comes a whole set of rights and obligations and duties, primarily to the family that have to be primary.
女人要生孩子，好，围绕这个事实,衍生出一整套权利，责任和义务，这些主要是对家庭而言，家庭是首要目标。
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Cornyn is looking into whether the lawyers breached their fiduciary duties to a client, Texas.
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Duty is work that you have to do for your job.
Your duties are tasks which you have to do because they are part of your job.
If you say that something is your duty, you believe that you ought to do it because it is your responsibility.
Duties are taxes which you pay to the government on goods that you buy.
If someone such as a police officer or a nurse is off duty, they are not working. If someone is on duty, they are working.