英语词汇“blame”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

blame

/bleɪm

verb [with object]

1Feel or declare that (someone or something) is responsible for a fault or wrong: the inquiry blamed the train driver for the accident...

In his court declaration, he blames his election agent for the oversight.
My only new reservation stems from her blaming her band for playing the wrong song.
This study and the other one in the magazine blaming fast food and its advertising is wrong.

Synonyms

hold responsible, hold accountable, hold liable, place/lay the blame on;

censure, criticize, condemn, accuse of, find/consider guilty of;

assign fault/liability/guilt to

archaic inculpate

ascribe to, attribute to, impute to, lay at the door of, put down to, set down to

informal pin, stick

1.1 (blame something on) Assign the responsibility for a bad or unfortunate situation or phenomenon to (someone or something): they blame youth crime on unemployment...

I still did not like the tone of the meeting, during which I felt like the principal was somehow blaming the situation on me.
He has blamed their financial situation on a national downturn in tourism and the impact of the floods.
People have blamed this phenomena on many things.

noun [mass noun]

Responsibility for a fault or wrong: his players had to take the blame for the defeat they are trying to put the blame on us...

She had made false accusations against him, made him go on the run and set him up to take the blame for her frauds.
Put another way, the audience itself will have to take the blame for promoting such songs.
She was also setting him up to take the blame for a fraud at the firm where she worked.

Synonyms

responsibility, guilt, accountability, liability, onus, blameworthiness, culpability, fault;

censure, criticism, condemnation, recrimination

informal rap

Phrases

be to blame

I don't (or can't) blame you (or her etc.)

have only oneself to blame

Derivatives

blameable

/ˈbleɪməb(ə)l

/ (US also blamable) adjective ...

If the term cause must be used, it can best be distinguished in this meaning as the imputable or responsible or blamable cause.
But how does one pinpoint the blameable subject in a bureaucracy?
He had been blamable, highly blamable, in remaining with her after he first felt her influence over him to be more than it ought to be.

blameful

/ˈbleɪmf(ə)l

/ /ˈbleɪmfʊl

/ adjective ...

Addicts tend to become resentful and blameful towards others, and that would be no different for somebody who is using this medication.
Instead, they become more bitter, more reactive, more blameful.
She twirled around to find her aunt was giving her a blameful look.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French blamer, blasmer (verb), from a popular Latin variant of ecclesiastical Latin blasphemare 'reproach, revile, blaspheme', from Greek blasphēmein (see blaspheme).

Blame is from the Old French blamer, blasmer, from a popular Latin variant of ecclesiastical Latin blasphemare ‘reproach, revile, blaspheme’, from Greek blasphēmein, source also of Middle English blaspheme.