unsubtle, ascribe, ascribe sth to sth

"A shriveled tangerine covered in golden retriever hair filled with bile that I wouldn't leave alone with the woman I love."
facebook:"一個又橘子全身金毛尋回犬頭髮充滿膽汁, 我不會離開一個人, 與我愛的女人."
Google： “一個枯萎的橘子蓋著金毛獵犬的頭髮充滿膽汁，我不會孤單與我愛的女人。

Barack Obama and Stephen Colbert Unsubtly Burn Donald Trump on The Late Show
Comparisons to a shriveled tangerine are only the start of it.
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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 ..."


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subtle

[suht-l] 

 

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adjective, subtler, subtlest.

1.

thin, tenuous, or rarefied, as a fluid or an odor.

2.

fine or delicate in meaning or intent; difficult to perceive or understand:

subtle irony.

3.

delicate or faint and mysterious:

a subtle smile.

4.

requiring mental acuteness, penetration, or discernment:

a subtle philosophy.

5.

characterized by mental acuteness or penetration:

a subtle understanding.

6.

cunning, wily, or crafty:

a subtle liar.

7.

insidious in operation:

subtle poison.

8.

skillful, clever, or ingenious:

a subtle painter.

ascribe
tr.v., -cribed, -crib·ing, -cribes.

1. To attribute to a specified cause, source, or origin: "Other people ascribe his exclusion from the canon to an unsubtle form of racism" (Daniel Pinchbeck). See synonyms at attribute.
2. To assign as a quality or characteristic: was quick to ascribe jealousy to her critics.

[Middle English ascriben, from Old French ascrivre, from Latin ascrībere : ad-, ad- + scrībere, to write.]

ascribable a·scrib'a·ble adj.

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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.