chalk up to

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chalk (something) up to (第三人称单数简单现在时 chalks up to，现在分词 chalking up to，一般过去时及过去分词 chalked up to)

1. (及物，俗语) 将...归因于

   Chalk it up to fear that he didn't finish.

   将他没有完成归因于恐惧。

   • 1990年10月5日, “Souter plans to get right down to work”, 出自 Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 第 85 卷, 第 154 期, section 1，第 14 页:

     “You can chalk it up maybe to, as one of my friends says, a nautical superstition,” he said. “Maybe I read too many Greek tragedies. I don't believe something’s going to happen like that until it’s happened.

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   • 2013年8月28日, Derek Thompson, “How Goliaths Beat Themselves: Microsoft's Mobile Failure and the Innovator's Dilemma”, 出自 The Atlantic‎^[1]:

     Some of the best pre-mortems for Steve Ballmer, out-going CEO of Microsoft, have chalked up the company's problem to the "innovator's dilemma."

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近义词

• put down to