put down to

英 [pʊt daʊn tu]

美 [pʊt daʊn tu]

把…归因于…

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB 归咎于…；归因于…
  If youputsomethingdown toa particular thing, you believe that it is caused by that thing.
  1. You may be a sceptic and put it down to life's inequalities.
     你或许是个怀疑论者，会把它归因于生活的不公正。

双语例句

• While those losing players'complaints could be put down to sour grapes, even Iker Casillas-whose Spanish team has progressed to Sunday's final game-said the ball is'appalling.
  即使这些失利球员的怨言也许有些酸葡萄心理，但本届世界杯冠军西班牙队的门将伊戈尔•卡西利亚斯（IkerCasillas）对这种足球的评价也是“很可怕”。
• The influx can be put down to the rising number of parrots being imported into the UK and the fact that the animals get more difficult to manage as they get older.
  大量的鹦鹉涌入保护区是因为从国外进口到英国的鹦鹉不断增多，而且鸟儿年纪越大越难养。
• If I forget anything, put it down to old age.
  假如我忘记了什么，那只怪年龄大了。
• The outbreak of cholera was put down to bad drinking water.
  霍乱的发生归因于饮用水不清洁。
• Such is Scholes'nature that those doubts could now be put down to his shrug-of-the-shoulders outlook on life.
  这就是斯科尔斯的性格，他可以满不在乎的回顾过去遇到的质疑。
• All this can be put down to advances in motor engineering.
  这一切都可归因于汽车工程学的发展。
• China has been viewed with greater suspicion in Asia over the past two years, a shift often put down to its sometimes bullying behaviour in places such as the South China Sea.
  过去两年中，中国在亚洲受到了越来越多的猜疑，之所以有这种变化，原因往往在于它有时在某些地区的强势举动，譬如在南中国海。
• Such apathy is often put down to tiredness, but a study published recently in Psychological Science suggests there may be more to it than that.
  这样的默然往往是劳累所致，最近在心理杂志上发表的一项研究表明，原因可能不止这一点。
• Rev Williamson later told Sky News: I felt a marker should be put down to say clearly to everybody that a female bishop is not found in the bible.
  莱福·保罗·威廉姆逊事后向Sky新闻说：我感觉向每个人说清楚《圣经》里找不到女性主教是有必要的。
• Can this failure be put down to his peculiar personality and foibles?
  这次失败是否可以归因于他那特殊的个性与性格弱点？