attribute

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at·tri·bute1 /əˈtrɪbjuːt $ -bjət/ AWL verb

1 attribute something to somebody/something phrasal verbphr v

a) CAUSEto believe or say that a situation or event is caused by something 把…归因于…

The fall in the number of deaths from heart disease is generally attributed to improvements in diet.

心脏病死亡人数的下降通常归因于日常饮食的改善。

b) CHARACTER OF somethingCHARACTER/PERSONALITYif people in general attribute a particular statement, painting, piece of music etc to someone, they believe that person said it, painted it etc 认为…是…所说[所作等]

a saying usually attributed to Confucius

一般认为是孔子说的一句格言

c) CHARACTER OF somethingCHARACTER/PERSONALITYto believe or say that someone or something has a particular quality 认为…具有…的特性

One should not attribute human motives to animals.

不应该认为动物也有人类的动机。

—attribution /ˌætrəˈbjuːʃən/ noun [uncountableU]

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attribute to • The authors attribute the structure to a major basement fault.• We do not attribute reality to all the objects of our apparent perception.• And I shan't be making the mistake of attributing it to any charms of mine, either.• The new attributes apply to characters subsequently printed to the screen.• It should become a key in attributing other work to his hand.• And he was right in attributing importance to ideas as opposed to the simple influence of pecuniary vested intereSt.• The actual phenomenon these qualitative attributes refer to is, as we have witnessed, contested.• The least valued attribute may come to the rescue on some fateful day when that very quality is required.

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attribute• Some economists attribute much of the rising wage inequality in this country to the shift in favor of the most skilled workers.• We describe their behaviour by attributing our explanations to those individuals.• We do not attribute reality to all the objects of our apparent perception.• I attribute that partly to discipline, partly to desire, and partly to the old transferability of skills.• The charitable thing to do would be to attribute this to great defense.• She achieves this by attributing to Freud a relatively low level of transhistorical applicability.• One very significant change from Morgan we can attribute to Marx.

at·tri·bute2 /ˈætrəbjuːt/ AWL noun [countableC]

1 CHARACTER OF somethingCHARACTER/PERSONALITYa quality or feature, especially one that is considered to be good or useful 特性，特质，属性

What attributes should a good manager possess?

一名优秀的经理应该具备哪些素质？

Examples from the Corpus

attribute• But he also offers an attribute not commonly found in the breed: intelligence.• He possesses the essential attributes of a journalist.• Kindness is just one of her many attributes.• It then extracts the required object or attribute and presents its graphically.• Physically short and slightly built, Atkinson possessed remarkable attributes.• Hope is one of mankind's most enduring and rewarding attributes.• She spent most of the interview describing the company's attributes to me.• Teamwork contributed to both the identification of location clients and the delivery of Glasgow's attributes to meet their specific needs.• Several pots with the same attributes constitute a pot type, and typology groups artifacts into such types.• Everyone knew he had all the attributes a golfer needs, and his swing was poetry in motion.• He had all the attributes of a great leader: charisma, energy, discipline, and resourcefulness.• The attribute that people found most attractive in Sharon was her optimism.• In addition to this attribute database a cartographic database is also being developed.• In Brunnson's view, effective ideologies should have three attributes.

From Longman Business Dictionary

attributeat·tri·bute /ˈætrɪbjuːt/ noun [countableC]

1MARKETING a characteristic, feature, or quality of a product

In selling cars, product quality and product attributes are complex.

2STATISTICS a quality that people in a group either have or do not have, used as the basis for ATTRIBUTE SAMPLING

Origin attribute1

(1300-1400) Latin past participle of attribuere, from ad- “to” + tribuere; → TRIBUTE

at·tri·bute1 verbat·tri·bute2 noun

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