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

• Crawford and Wang believe the slump in attainment can be put down to two factors.
  克劳福特和王认为，学习成绩的倒退可以归结为两个因素。
• If you want to find the true yourself, only forget, only put down to do it.
  如果你要找到最真的自己，只有忘记，只有放下，才能做到。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These optimistic figures have been put down to increased funding and improved availability of drugs to treat the disease.
  这些乐观的数字要归功于增加的资金投入以及运用药物治疗这个疾病。
• 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。
• 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。
• However, his whistle fell, raise arm froze like wood, also can't put down to half.
  可是，他的口哨掉了，举起的手臂僵得像根木头，半天也没能放下来。