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

• 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？
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。