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

• 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。
• Wind blows afloat your name, the moon put down to the dust the passing world-bound, and tomorrow, the first ray of the rising sun in Jiangnan, is there anyone who can read its feeling?
  风吹起你的名字，月谢落过往的尘缘，明天，烟雨江南孕育的第一缕晨曦，有谁能解它的情衷？
• The group is in the process of an upheaval that some put down to an attempt by the family to reduce inheritance tax.
  该集团正在经历一场剧变，一些人将这场剧变归结为李氏家族试图减少遗传税的努力。
• Problems that arise in China through cultural differences can often be put down to simple misunderstandings.
  在中国由于文化区别发生的问题，可以被人为是简单的误会。
• Only ten per cent of people infected with the TB-causing bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis develop the disease& a phenomenon largely put down to genetic differences between individuals.
  人在感染结核病病原体&结核分枝杆菌（Mycobacteriumtuberculosis）之后，只有10%的人会发病。这种现象很大程度上归结于人与人之间的遗传差异。
• 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。
• At first the outbreak of food poisoning was put down to contaminated milk.
  起初以为食物中毒是牛奶受到污染的缘故。
• 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。
• The outbreak has been put down to the overflow of sewage-contaminated water into the Ruacana river from Angola following floods last month.
  这场疾病暴发的原因被归结于上个月被污染的下水道中的水随着洪水流入了安哥拉的鲁阿卡纳河。
• 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。