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标题：Singapore goes after companies over toxic haze

Smog-choked city-state is threatening groups behind land burning in Indonesia

正文：Singapore is trying to hold companies to account as it grapples with its worst air pollution in a decade, but the smog-choked city-state is running into the limits of prosecuting cross-border environmental laws.The government has in recent days threatened legal action against 10 businesses, several with deep ties to Singapore, that it says are behind wildfires in neighbouring Indonesia that have produced the haze. It has also raised questions about whether other companies listed on the local bourse may be involved, and has threatened to target company profits,access to financing and standing with investors.

知识点：【hold sb to account】 /hoʊld ˈsʌmbədi tu əˈkaʊnt/ phrasal v.

英文释义：hold someone to account means to require someone to explain their actions and accept responsibility for them

本义为"把某人按在账本前"（account 源自古法语acont、拉丁语 computare，com- 一起+ putare 清点，本义"算账"），问责语境核心义为追究责任、要求某人交代清楚

核心搭配：hold politicians to account、be held to account for sth、hold the government to account、call sb to account

・Voters expect the media to hold elected officials to account between elections.选民期待媒体在两次选举之间对民选官员进行问责。

・The company was held to account for the waste it had dumped into the river.该公司因向河中倾倒废弃物而被追究责任。