ascribe sth to sth

An articulate community, liberal in the United States, social
democratic or socialist in Europe and Japan, does ascribe economic or
other motive to the interest-serving view. This can be quite wrong.
What rewards particular interest may reflect only a normal tendency to
self-benefiting expression and action.
美國的自由派、歐洲和日本的社會民主派或社會主義者所形成的論述，的確將經濟動機或其他動機歸因於追求利益。這可是相當有問題的。這種報酬過程得到的特殊利益，可能只反映言行自利團體的一般偏好而已。

To commence the design of the sample, we ascribe to each factory a number of sampling units, which will be approximately but not necessarily equal to the number of ..."


on Page 219: "... Census-figures desirable but not necessary. If there are no figures from the Census for the areas in a frame, we ascribe to each area, by our best judgment, some number of sampling units. ..."

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ascribe sth to sth (CAUSE) phrasal verb FORMAL
to believe or say that something is caused by something else:
To what do you ascribe your phenomenal success?


ascribe sth to sb/sth (QUALITY) phrasal verb FORMAL
to believe that someone or something has a particular quality:
People like to ascribe human feelings to animals.

ascribe sth to sb (CREATION) phrasal verb FORMAL
to believe that something was said, written or created by a particular person:
After years of research, scholars have finally ascribed this anonymous play to Christopher Marlowe.

as・cribe

━━ vt. （に）帰する, （の）せいにする ((to)).
as・crib・a・ble　━━ a. （に）帰せられる, による ((to)).
as・cribed　━━ a. 生来の.
ascribed status　生得的地位 ((性別・人種などの生まれつきの条件に基づく社会的地位)).
as・crip・tion
　━━ n. 帰すること, 理由づけ; 頌(しょう)栄.