ascription
noun [ U ] formal uk/əˈskrɪp.ʃən/ us/əˈskrɪp.ʃən/
(OF QUALITY, FEATURE)
赋予某人或某物特定的性质或特质，归属
a belief or decision that a particular quality or feature belongs to or is typical of someone or something
Most teachers would reject the ascription of particular traits to whole groups of children on the basis of social class. 大多数教师会拒绝根据社会阶层将某些特性赋予整个儿童群体。
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- Animism is the ascription of a spiritual life to all of creation.
- Her tendency to sweeping generalizations and ascription of motivation is clear.
- We've learned something that might be relevant to the legal ascription of responsibility.
- the ascription of traditional domestic and non-domestic roles to the female and male characters in the book
- Ethnic descriptions such as "Spaniard" and "mestizo" were definitions of social and fiscal status rather than of genetic ascription.
(TO WRITER, ETC.)
对（作品、内容）归属权的认定
a belief or claim that something was said, written, or created by a particular person
The ascription of the text to Gerves du Bus is questionable. 不能确认文稿是热尔维斯杜巴斯所写。
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- The general likeness of this poem to Barbour's accepted work in verse-length, dialect and style made the ascription plausible.
- The ascription to Sir William Coventry arose because the printer used a manuscript found among Coventry’s papers.
- The author accepts the ascription of all these treatises to Khayyam.
- The ascription of this argument to Alexander seems reasonable.
(OF CAUSE)
归因
a belief or claim that something is caused by something else
the ascription of our successes to our own merit 将我们的成功归功于自身的优点
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- the ascription of natural phenomena to a divine cause
- In any scientific ascription of cause, we must carefully regard the facts.
- the ascription of these acts to evil powers