Attribute
[ə'trɪbjuːt] or [ə'trɪbjut]
解释:
(v. t.) To ascribe; to consider (something) as due or appropriate (to); to refer, as an effect to a cause; to impute; to assign; to consider as belonging (to).
(n.) That which is attributed; a quality which is considered as belonging to, or inherent in, a person or thing; an essential or necessary property or characteristic.
(n.) Reputation.
(n.) A conventional symbol of office, character, or identity, added to any particular figure; as, a club is the attribute of Hercules.
(n.) Quality, etc., denoted by an attributive; an attributive adjunct or adjective.
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同义词及近义词:
v. a. Ascribe, assign, refer, impute, consider as due.
n. Quality, property, characteristic, peculiarity.
卡梅拉整理
同义词及反义词:
SYN:Property, quality, characteristic, attainment, sign, mark, indication,manifestation
ANT:correlative, viz, Essence, nature, substance, etc, or, spuriously, affectation,misnomer, semblance, assumption, mask, veil
SYN:Refer, assign, associate, apply, ascribe, charge, impute, connect
ANT:Divorce, disconnect, dissociate, dissever
手打:朱迪
解释:
v.t. to ascribe assign or consider as belonging.—adj. Attrib′utable.—ns. At′tribute that which is attributed: that which is inherent in or inseparable from anything: that which can be predicated of anything: a quality or property; Attribū′tion act of attributing: that which is attributed: commendation.—adj. Attrib′utive expressing an attribute.—n. a word denoting an attribute.
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例句:
- A thorough, determined dislike of me--a dislike which I cannot but attribute in some measure to jealousy. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- Original genius was peculiarly his attribute. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
- A very trifle affects me now; so do not be too vain, nor attribute to sentiment what is due to the scarlet fever. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- Was not knowing, the activity of reason, the noblest attribute of man? 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- Why should you attribute any importance to so grotesque an object? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- We know that all human actions are imperfect; but we do not therefore attribute them to the worse rather than to the better motive or principle. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- To what do you attribute it? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- No doubt he attributed it for the time to the presumption of a graduate of West Point over a volunteer pure and simple. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The writings that have been attributed to Geber show the advances that chemistry made through t he experiments of the Arabs. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- The cause of the great War of the Rebellion against the United Status will have to be attributed to slavery. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The pickerel doubtless attributed to the roach all this shaking, the rebuff which he had received. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It would be very unkind of you to suppose that I ever attributed any meanness to you, she began. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Medicated pads are quite popular with many who have tried them, and a multitude of remarkable cures are attributed to their use. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
- The Kimberlite of the Jagersfontein mine is free from pyrites, and to that is attributed the remarkable brilliancy and purity of color for which the diamonds of this mine are celebrated. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The new legs last twice as long as the others used to do, and he attributes this solely to his temperate habits (triumphant cheers). 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- And it is now well known that he attributes this coincidence to descent with modification. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- As an incontrovertible proof that those baleful attributes were all there, Mrs Wilfer shuddered on the spot. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Were the pride of ancestry, the patrician spirit, the gentle courtesies and refined pursuits, splendid attributes of rank, to be erased among us? 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- See here, sir, at present I am worshipping a creature of my own creation, with the face of that picture, but with the attributes of fancy. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- When one sees a perfect woman, one never thinks of her attributes--one is conscious of her presence. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- His errors are readily comprehensible, as, for example, in attributing spontaneous generation to eels, the habits and mode of reproduction of which only recent studies have made fully known. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
- Mrs. Bulstrode said no more, attributing some dissatisfaction which she felt to her own want of spirituality. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- We incline to account for it by attributing congenital stupidity to our forerunners and by assuming superior native intelligence on our own part. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
- My dear child, don't add to it still more--at least to your conception of it--by attributing to her all sorts of susceptibilities of your own. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Was I right in attributing this sudden change of place to some threatened annoyance on the part of Count Fosco? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The idea of attributing great successes to genius has always been repudiated by Edison, as evidenced by his historic remark that Genius is 1 per cent. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Lydgate was too hasty in attributing insensibility to her; after her own fashion, she was sensitive enough, and took lasting impressions. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
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