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

• 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。
• A study found that students asked to tell whether someone was gay or straight guessed correctly more often than could be put down to mere chance.
  一项研究发现，在要求学生辨认一个人是同性恋还是异性恋的时候，通常会猜中的几率比较大，这可不仅仅是随机猜测的问题。
• Look carefully at the picture, a wall surrounding an old house was put down to a huge pile of stones and bricks.
  仔细看看照片。一堵围墙正在推土机的重压下轰然倒下化成了一堆砖石。
• 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。
• The symptoms of SAD are often put down to shyness and hence the condition is still largely ignored in China, says Zhang Mingyuan, a doctor with Shanghai Mental Health Center.
  上海精神疾控中心医生张明远（音译）表示，社交恐惧症的症状常被看作是害羞，因而在中国仍在很大程度上被忽视。
• And even if global stock markets 'generally vigorous start to the new year can be put down to expectations of a continued M& A boom, that is no reason to believe that all the old problems associated with mega-deals have been solved.
  即便全球股市在新年伊始整体表现活跃，可以归结为市场对并购热潮将持续下去的预期，但也不能据此认为，所有与大额交易相关的老问题已得到解决。
• Their success can rather be put down to what they offer and how they are used.
  这些网站的成功，更应该归功于它们所提供的服务和使用方式。
• But should President Obama president have put down to let2011 the date as the date of the begining of the withdrawl of American presence?
  奥巴马总统是不是应该确定，2011年开始撤出美国势力？
• 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。
• 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。