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单词 ascribe
释义
ascribeas‧cribe /əˈskraɪb/ verb Word Origin
WORD ORIGINascribe
Origin:
1400-1500 Old French ascrivre, from Latin ascribere, from ad- ‘to’ + scribere ‘to write’
Verb Table
VERB TABLE
ascribe
Simple Form
PresentI, you, we, theyascribe
he, she, itascribes
PastI, you, he, she, it, we, theyascribed
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave ascribed
he, she, ithas ascribed
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad ascribed
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill ascribe
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have ascribed
Continuous Form
PresentIam ascribing
he, she, itis ascribing
you, we, theyare ascribing
PastI, he, she, itwas ascribing
you, we, theywere ascribing
Present perfectI, you, we, theyhave been ascribing
he, she, ithas been ascribing
Past perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theyhad been ascribing
FutureI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill be ascribing
Future perfectI, you, he, she, it, we, theywill have been ascribing
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But to ascribe this to male chauvinism wouldn't be accurate either.
  • Sammler mastered and dismissed this suspicion, ascribing it to surprise and nervousness.
  • Similarly, her consideration of wearing a crucifix as jewellery was linked to assumptions that individuals might ascribe to the wearer.
  • There seems no particular reason to ascribe economic rationality to one group and not the other.
  • This effort to ascribe blame makes no sense, because the dip was too small to matter.
  • We could ascribe these setbacks to the fact that our regime is young, or make other excuses.
  • We may be quite right to ascribe agency to a child for his acts.
ascribe something to somebody/something phrasal verb written1to claim that something is caused by a particular person, situation etc:  The report ascribes the rise in childhood asthma to the increase in pollution.2to claim that something has been written, said, made etc by a particular person:  a quotation that’s often been ascribed to Marilyn Monroe3to believe that something or someone has a particular quality:  Local people ascribe healing properties to this fruit.ascribable adjective:  Most of the accidents were ascribable to the bad weather.
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