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单词 impute
释义
impute
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The verb impute can be used to blame someone for doing something bad, give credit for good work, or just tell it like it is, like when you impute your lateness to my not telling you where to meet me.
When you impute something, you name the cause of something that has happened. For example, you might impute your ability to sing well to the thousands of dollars your parents spent in voice lessons. In other words, you name the source. You can also impute a person, like imputing to a teacher your love of learning — he or she helped you become more interested in school and your classes.
WORD FAMILY
impute: imputable, imputation, imputed, imputes, imputing+/imputable: imputably/imputation: imputations
USAGE EXAMPLES
It’s possible to impute political motives to the computer scientists, some of whom have criticized Trump on social media.
Slate(Oct 31, 2016)
But imputing them loosely to large numbers of people, and dismissing those people with contempt, isn’t helpful.
Slate(Oct 05, 2016)
Essentially, the Europeans propose judging anticompetitiveness on the basis of something with imputed value, the uses of which aren’t fully understood yet.
New York Times(Sep 30, 2016)
1v attribute or credit to
People impute great cleverness to cats
Syn|Hypo|Hyper
ascribe, assign, attribute
carnalize, sensualize
ascribe to an origin in sensation
credit
give someone credit for something
reattribute
attribute to another source
anthropomorphise, anthropomorphize
ascribe human features to something
personate, personify
attribute human qualities to something
accredit, credit
ascribe an achievement to
blame, charge
attribute responsibility to
externalise, externalize, project
regard as objective
interiorise, interiorize, internalise, internalize
incorporate within oneself; make subjective or personal
evaluate, judge, pass judgment
form a critical opinion of
2v attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source
The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness
Syn|Hyper
ascribe, assign, attribute
attribute or credit to
ascribe, assign, attribute
attribute or credit to
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