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。
• 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。
• Problems that arise in China through cultural differences can often be put down to simple misunderstandings.
  在中国由于文化区别发生的问题，可以被人为是简单的误会。
• While those losing players'complaints could be put down to sour grapes, even Iker Casillas-whose Spanish team has progressed to Sunday's final game-said the ball is'appalling.
  即使这些失利球员的怨言也许有些酸葡萄心理，但本届世界杯冠军西班牙队的门将伊戈尔•卡西利亚斯（IkerCasillas）对这种足球的评价也是“很可怕”。
• Wind blows afloat your name, the moon put down to the dust the passing world-bound, and tomorrow, the first ray of the rising sun in Jiangnan, is there anyone who can read its feeling?
  风吹起你的名字，月谢落过往的尘缘，明天，烟雨江南孕育的第一缕晨曦，有谁能解它的情衷？
• The group is in the process of an upheaval that some put down to an attempt by the family to reduce inheritance tax.
  该集团正在经历一场剧变，一些人将这场剧变归结为李氏家族试图减少遗传税的努力。
• 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。
• 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。