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 Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++at·tri·bute1 /əˈtrɪbjuːt $ -bjət/ ●○○ AWL verb  1 attribute something to somebody/something phrasal verb 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 [uncountable]→ See Verb table

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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 [countable]  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？

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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 Dictionaryattributeat‧tri‧bute /ˈætrɪbjuːt/ noun [countable]1MARKETING a characteristic, feature, or quality of a productIn 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 SAMPLINGOrigin attribute1 (1300-1400) Latin past participle of attribuere, from ad- “to” + tribuere; → TRIBUTE

at·tri·bute1 verbat·tri·bute2 nounChineseSyllable  

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at‧tri‧bute¹ AC /əˈtrɪbjuːt $ -bjət/ verb
     
attribute something to somebody/something phrasal verb
  1. to believe or say that a situation or event is caused by something:
    The fall in the number of deaths from heart disease is generally attributed to improvements in diet.
  2. if people in general attribute a particular statement, painting, piece of music etc to someone, they believe that person said it, painted it etc:
    a saying usually attributed to Confucius
  3. to believe or say that someone or something has a particular quality:
    One should not attribute human motives to animals.
—attribution /ˌætrəˈbjuːʃən, ˌætrɪˈbjuːʃən/ noun [uncountable]

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at‧tri‧bute² AC /ˈætrəbjuːt, ˈætrɪbjuːt/ noun [countable]
a quality or feature, especially one that is considered to be good or useful:
    What attributes should a good manager possess?
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ characteristic something that is typical of someone or something and makes them easy to recognize: He had several characteristics which made him different to the rest of his family. | the physical characteristics of the brain | He studied the special characteristics of adult speech addressed to children.
   ▪ quality a characteristic of a person, especially a good one such as kindness or intelligence: Tina has a lot of good qualities. | I’m not sure about his leadership qualities. | Obedience is a quality that my father admires.
   ▪ feature an important or interesting characteristic of something: it seems to be a feature of modern society that we tend to judge ourselves by our work above everything else. | A curious feature of the novel is the absence of women. | The building still has many of its original features.
   ▪ property [usually plural] technical a characteristic of a substance or object, for example hardness or elasticity, or how it behaves - used especially in scientific contexts: We examined the physical properties of various metals. | changes in the electrical properties of cells | Some plants have healing properties.
   ▪ attribute formal a good or useful characteristic: I suspected I probably did not quite possess all the attributes required to succeed at the highest level. | All living things are able to reproduce their kind, an attribute which no machine possesses..
   ▪ good/bad points good or bad characteristics – used when someone or something has both good and bad characteristics: The seller will obviously emphasize the car’s good points. | Draw up a list of your partner’s good and bad points.