词汇：incumbent

adj. 现任的；依靠的；负有职责的

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“You take that medicine,” she said to July, as soon as he had finished. “If you don’t, I guess you’ll be yellow the rest of your life.” “He ain’t as yellow as he was,” Joe said, feeling that it was incumbent on him to take up for July a little bit, since July would never take up for himself. He had no real fear of his mother—she whipped him plenty, but her anger never lasted long, and if she was really mad he could always outrun her.“He’s too yellow for me,” Elmira said. “If I’d wanted a yellow husband I’d have married a Chinaman.” “What’s a Chinaman?” Joe asked.>>完整场景

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And since you know the explosives are there, it is incumbent upon you to take account of them. I can see a potential legal objection.>>完整场景

It is incumbent upon us lawyers not to just talk about the truth but to actually seek it to find it, to live it.>>完整场景