Impute
[ɪm'pjuːt]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) attribute or credit to; 'We attributed this quotation to Shakespeare'; 'People impute great cleverness to cats'.
(verb.) attribute (responsibility or fault) to a cause or source; 'The teacher imputed the student's failure to his nervousness'.
杰罗姆錄入--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To charge; to ascribe; to attribute; to set to the account of; to charge to one as the author, responsible originator, or possessor; -- generally in a bad sense.
(v. t.) To adjudge as one's own (the sin or righteousness) of another; as, the righteousness of Christ is imputed to us.
(v. t.) To take account of; to consider; to regard.
編輯:露西尔
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. Ascribe (especially to some evil cause), attribute, refer, charge, consider as due.
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同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Ascribe, refer, charge
ANT:Withdraw, retract
錄入:尼科尔
解釋/意思:
v.t. to reckon as belonging to (in a bad sense): to charge: (theol.) to attribute vicariously: (rare) to take account of.—adj. Imput′able capable of being imputed or charged: attributable.—ns. Imput′ableness Imputabil′ity.—adv. Imput′ably.—n. Imputā′tion act of imputing or charging: censure: reproach: the reckoning as belonging to.—adjs. Imput′ative imputed; Imput′atively.—n. Imput′er.
編輯:塞格雷
例句/造句/用法:
- And do you impute it to either of those? 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- If the former have not been as much below the general average as the latter have been above it, we ought probably to impute it to the bounty. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- For, to what else,' said Mrs General, with a slightly interrogative action of her gloves, 'could I impute--' 'To--ha--yourself, Mrs General. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- You err--you err,--said the Templar, hastily, if you impute what I could neither foresee nor prevent to my purpose or agency. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Mr. Knightley could not impute to Emma a more relenting heart than she possessed, or a heart more disposed to accept of his. 簡·奧斯丁. 愛瑪.
- I never impute motives; I both have and am a father, and I never impute motives. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- It could only be imputed to increasing attachment. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Though Minorca has been twice taken, and is now probably lost for ever, that disaster has never been imputed to any neglect in the executive power. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- He had married her with that bad past life hidden behind him, and she had no faith left to protest his innocence of the worst that was imputed to him. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Mr Locke imputed this high price to the permission of exporting silver bullion, and to the prohibition of exporting silver coin. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- She rejoiced in his being cleared from some part of his imputed guilt;she was sorry for him;she wished him happy. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- It was imputed to very reasonable weariness, and she was thanked and pitied; but she deserved their pity more than she hoped they would ever surmise. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- Inconsistencies, answered Imlac, cannot both be right, but imputed to man they may both be true. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- In an hurried manner he immediately began an inquiry after her health, imputing his visit to a wish of hearing that she were better. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- It is to the alcavala, accordingly, that Ustaritz imputes the ruin of the manufactures of Spain. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
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