| 单词 | attribute |
| 释义 | attribute Word forms: attributes, attributing , attributed pronunciation note: The verb is pronounced (ətrɪbjuːt ). The noun is pronounced (ætrɪbjuːt ). 1. verb If you attribute something to an event or situation, you think that it was caused by that event or situation. The striker attributes the team's success to a positive ethos at the club. [VERB noun + to] Synonyms: ascribe, apply, credit, blame 2. verb If you attribute a particular quality or feature to someone or something, you think that they have got it. People were beginning to attribute superhuman qualities to him. [VERB noun + to] attribution (ætrɪbjuːʃən ) uncountable noun [oft NOUN of noun] There's usually a lot of attribution of evil intent to those who have different views. Synonyms: ascription, charge, credit, blame 3. verb [usually passive] If a piece of writing, a work of art, or a remark is attributed to someone, people say that they wrote it, created it, or said it. This, and the remaining frescoes, are not attributed to Giotto. [be VERB-ed + to] ...a Madonna and Child attributed to Pietro Lorenzetti. [VERB-ed] 4. countable noun An attribute is a quality or feature that someone or something has. Cruelty is a normal attribute of human behaviour. He has every attribute you could want and could play for any team. Synonyms: quality, point, mark, sign Collocations: attribute a cause The pathologist who examined the body attributed the cause of death to alcohol toxicity. Times, Sunday Times They were horrified then when the interior-ministry spokesman held the press conference in which he cited their report, attributing the cause of death to hitting the lever of the sunroof. Times, Sunday Times In such a verdict the circumstances of a death are recorded without attributing the cause to a named individual. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Preliminary reports attributed the cause of the explosion to a test of the plant's energy systems. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Before that discovery, doctors attributed the cause of many epidemics to what they called miasmas floating in the air. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A climate of fear pervades institutions, and especially government, amid the perpetual quest to attribute blame for human misfortunes. Times, Sunday Times Powerful global macroeconomic forces have been overlooked and misunderstood in the rush to attribute blame for the current financial crisis. Times, Sunday Times As with other divorces, it's often hard to know how to attribute blame. Times, Sunday Times He was reluctant to attribute blame to anyone but the entertainer. Times, Sunday Times This pioneering novel doesn't attempt to explain the narrator's perplexity or attribute blame to a single party or person. The Times Literary Supplement The varied pattern can be attributed largely to the dispersants that transform its consistency. Times, Sunday Times The encroachment has been attributed largely to householders who leave out food, and the introduction of fir trees to gardens. Times, Sunday Times After a two-month hospitalization, he experienced a surprising full recovery attributed largely to his superb physical condition as a competitive swimmer. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Loss of biodiversity can be attributed largely to the appropriation of land for agroforestry and the effects of climate change. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Recent extinction trends can be attributed largely to sedimentation, stream fragmentation, chemical and organic pollutants, dams, and invasive species. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The rate of inflation was attributed mainly to lower clothing prices, which were down 7.7 per cent on the previous year. Times, Sunday Times The increase has been attributed mainly to a 15.2 per cent increase in prices charged to customers. Times, Sunday Times The victory must be attributed mainly to the cavalry and its brilliant commander. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The loss was attributed mainly to the inability to expand the network as quickly and extensively as originally planned. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 By 2008 letter-post service operators were reporting significantly smaller volumes of letter-post, specifically stamped envelopes, which they attributed mainly to replacement by e-mail. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Conventionally, these social differences are attributed solely to culture. Time Magazine Enforced absence from the stage cannot be attributed solely to inexperience, though. Times, Sunday Times The researchers said, however, that these differences were not significant enough to be attributed solely to treatment or lack of it. Times, Sunday Times Spheroidal weathering has often been incorrectly attributed solely to various types of physical weathering. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This can not be attributed solely to lack of luck. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 While they come in many different shapes and sizes, at their core these companies share many common attributes and mindsets. Times, Sunday Times Other common attributes may be added, but are not required, such as cabinets, flooring, bathroom fixtures, paint color, wall tile, and other interior finishes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Safe applications exhibit common attributes, such as being of a known origin with known publishers. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The three are from very different worlds, but still share common attributes that appear most prominent when they all undergo significant changes in their lives. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In this type of join, two relations are connected by their common attributes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Likes: reading, walks, golf, music made up of a list of desirable attributes or abilities. Times, Sunday Times Next, those genes are filtered for desirable attributes that would make good vaccine targets such as outer membrane proteins. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Marriage criteria began to weigh intelligence and education as desirable attributes in a wife, right along with physical attractiveness. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Although they have many desirable attributes as model organisms, these flies have trouble dealing with some experimental bacteria that should not be pathogens. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 A considerable amount of data quality research involves investigating and describing various categories of desirable attributes (or dimensions) of data. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 This means he willingly set aside some of his divine attributes, like omnipresence, to occupy a physical body. Christianity Today Small churches tend to share one of the divine attributes: they don't change. Christianity Today Each being subsists by its relationship to one of these divine attributes or names. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He possessed the spiritual attributes of reason, love, and imagination, like all spiritual beings, but he alone possessed the divine attributes of omnipotence, omniscience, and omnipresence. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ultimately, for all his many qualities, he lacked that essential attribute of serial winners: the capacity for reinvention. Times, Sunday Times He made the fingerpicking, cultivated on the guitar -- especially in flamenco -- to an essential attribute of his mature style. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The patriarchal dignity had meanwhile become worldly, as it were; for exceptional learning was by no means held to be an essential attribute of its possessor. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He has all the essential attributes — size, a strong chin, a big heart, a good jab, power and desire. The Sun The essential attributes for prison staff, she says, are a sense of humour, openness, calmness and organisation. Times, Sunday Times It was wrong, said critics, to explain human attributes such as generosity and love in coldly scientific terms. Times, Sunday Times Many commentators have noticed that he lacked what are often regarded as the higher human attributes. Times, Sunday Times We shed our thick short and curlies because it was our natural selection, our destiny, our personal ecology, and instead gained those uniquely human attributes: taste and vanity. Times, Sunday Times My characters are persons in whom certain human attributes are focused more sharply and consistently than in average human beings. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Personification occurs whenever human attributes are applied to the noun. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 That even with all the cameras, sensors and security tags the modern retail facility possessed, the most important attribute was still good, old-fashioned instinct. Times, Sunday Times You strike me as a manager who strives to do his best by a player's most important attribute: to wit, the athlete's foot. Times, Sunday Times In some companies, being 'always on' seems to have become a more important attribute than getting results. Times, Sunday Times By far the most important attribute has been the knowledge and compassion of the crowd. Times, Sunday Times That's perhaps the most important attribute a goalkeeper can have. Times, Sunday Times Many early studies focused on social integration and a person's individual attributes as the factors for degree completion. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Even though these are highly individual attributes there are some accepted ideas of what makes a follower graceful and beautiful when dancing tango. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Traditional basketball statistics analyze individuals independently of their teammates or competitors and traditional player positions are determined by individual attributes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Indexes are constructed by accumulating scores assigned to individual attributes, while scales are constructed through the assignment of scores to patterns of attributes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each character has individual attributes and abilities. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The trainer highlighted the filly's raw pace as her key attribute. The Sun Most important of all, he has the heart of a lion, the key attribute of a champion. Times, Sunday Times What he did possess were the two key attributes of a writer: curiosity and imagination. Times, Sunday Times Sharp elbows, a high tolerance for queueing and a forensic scientist's eye for sale rails were once the key attributes for high street bargainhunters. Times, Sunday Times What are the key attributes they must have to win when it really matters? Times, Sunday Times Yet the town has all the necessary attributes, including an independent cinema, a highly regarded auction room and good schools. Times, Sunday Times Meanwhile, many young people with all the necessary attributes will never be given the opportunity to train as nurses because they lack the academic qualifications to go to university. Times, Sunday Times By contrast, entrepreneurs are typically flexible, adaptable and pragmatic in their outlook - all necessary attributes when planning for the future. Times, Sunday Times She still has a good way to climb before she reaches her peak and most of the necessary attributes are there. Times, Sunday Times The teaching staff consists of fully qualified and trained teachers with the necessary attributes and aptitude to work in a residential school. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Almost everything he found was a negative personal attribute or something that had happened in the past. Times, Sunday Times His triumph was a human and personal attribute, the infinite capacity for taking pains with players. Times, Sunday Times He respected talent above any personal attribute, but he made sure his employees knew who was boss. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 The most common ones are based on a physical characteristic or a personal attribute of the originator. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Political colleagues recalled the personal attributes behind her ability to forge seismic economic, political and social change. Times, Sunday Times I was also curious to find out more about a physical attribute that illicits such strong feelings. Times, Sunday Times True, he did have what one may describe as an 'eye for goal' but conventional wisdom suggested it was subordinate to his physical attributes. Times, Sunday Times It defines how we think, feel and behave relative to our physical attributes. Times, Sunday Times The participants then viewed photographs from the faces of purported criminals and were asked to estimate their physical attributes, such as size and muscularity. Times, Sunday Times To take on another person's physical attributes and play them fully needs huge amounts of energy. Times, Sunday Times A bit of danger, play experts argued, was a positive attribute in a playground. Times, Sunday Times This was seen as a positive attribute for portraits because it softened the appearance of the human face. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 He believed this to be a positive attribute. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 In the late 1980s the pipe was goneso as not to reinforce smoking as a positive attribute. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Pragmatically, his positive attributes and accomplishments far outshine those of other contemporary client-kings, and he was easily one of the best rulers of his time. Christianity Today This variation had the unique attribute of being able to absorb sound. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Ligand-activated receptor tyrosine kinases, as they are sometimes referred to, demonstrate a unique attribute. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Sometimes the unique attributes of a stadium create a home-field advantage. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Each ship has its own unique attributes that makes the best use in combat situations, though the controls are quite similar. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 As a series first, each playable character now possesses his or her own unique attributes. Retrieved from Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0 Translations: Chinese: 把…归因于, 特质 Japanese: ～に帰すると考える, 特性 |
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