attribute是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为vt. 归因于; n. 属性; 象征; 标志，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The geologist would find rich treasures in the tertiary strata here, for it is full of antediluvian remains—enormous bones, which the Indians attribute to some gigantic race that lived in a past age.
-- "Well, but granting that complicity, we may attribute the crime to the natives who haunt the Murray.
-- "Then you don't attribute the crime to the natives?"
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The athlete's lips curled disdainfully, and without honouring his adversary with a formal denial, he exhibited, as if by accident, that peculiarly Russian object an enormous fist, clenched, muscular, and covered with red hairs!The sight of this pre-eminently national attribute was enough to convince anybody, without words, that it was a serious matter for those who should happen to come into contact with it.
-- She is sure of your love; but besides that, she must attribute SOME-THING else to you some good qualities, otherwise the thing would not be.
-- We de-grade God when we attribute our own ideas to Him, out of annoyance that we cannot fathom His ways.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was an old-fashioned place, moreover, in the moral attribute that the partners in the House were proud of its smallness, proud of its darkness, proud of its ugliness, proud of its incommodiousness.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 758 Crime and Punishment He preferred to attribute it to the dead weight of instinct which he could not step over, again through weakness and meanness.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nothing is farther from my thoughts than to attribute any degreeof artifice to Mr. Jorkins.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This, on his side, might merely proceed from her not being thought of; but Emma was rather inclined to attribute it to delicacy, and a suspicion, from some appear-ances, that their friendship were declining.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- We learn that it is not the rays which bodies absorb, but those which they reject, that give them the colours they are known by; and in the same way people are specialized by their dislikes and antagonisms, whilst their goodwill is looked upon as no attribute at all.
-- But limitation of the capacity is never recognized as a loss by the loser therefrom: in this attribute moral or 脙娄sthetic poverty contrasts plausibly with material, since those who suffer do not mind it, whilst those who mind it soon cease to suffer.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The other was his wife, and hecould only attribute her to the mysterious kindness of God.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Nor, in quite other aspects, does Nature in her least palpable but not the less malicious agencies, fail to enlist among her forces this crowning attribute of the terrible.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'A thorough, determined dislike of me a dislike which I cannot but attribute in some measure to jealousy.
-- 'I am by no means of the opinion, I assure you,' said he, 'that a ball of this kind, given by a young man of character, to respectable people, can have any evil tendency; and I am so far from objecting to dancing myself, that I shall hope to be honoured with the hands of all my fair cousins in the course of the evening; and I take this opportunity of solicit-ing yours, Miss Elizabeth, for the two first dances especially, a preference which I trust my cousin Jane will attribute to the right cause, and not to any disrespect for her.'
-- As I must therefore conclude that you are not serious in your rejection of me, I shall choose to attribute it to your wish of increasing my love by suspense, according to the usual practice of elegant females.'
-- 'For we must attribute this happy conclusion,' she added, 'in a great measure to his kindness.
在简·奥斯汀的《理智与情感》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "But with a strange kind of tenderness, if he can leave her with such indifference, such carelessness of the future, as you attribute to him."
-- Elinor answered in some distress that she was, and then talked of head-aches, low spirits, and over fatigues; and of every thing to which she could decently attribute her sister's behaviour.
-- That some kind of engagement had subsisted between Willoughby and Marianne she could not doubt, and that Willoughby was weary of it, seemed equally clear; for however Marianne might still feed her own wishes, SHE could not attribute such behaviour to mistake or misapprehension of any kind.
-- Her sister, however, still sanguine, was willing to attribute the change to nothing more than the fatigue of having sat up to have her bed made; and carefully administering the cordials prescribed, saw her, with satisfaction, sink at last into a slumber, from which she expected the most beneficial effects.
-- She was calm, except when she thought of her mother; but she was almost hopeless; and in this state she continued till noon, scarcely stirring from her sister's bed, her thoughts wandering from one image of grief, one suffering friend to another, and her spirits oppressed to the utmost by the conversation of Mrs. Jennings, who scrupled not to attribute the severity and danger of this attack to the many weeks of previous indisposition which Marianne's disappointment had brought on.
在西奥多·德莱塞的《嘉莉妹妹》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This majesty of passion is possessed by nearly every man once in his life, but it is usually an attribute of youth and conduces to the first successful mating.
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