chalk up to

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chalk (something) up to (第三人稱單數簡單現在時 chalks up to，現在分詞 chalking up to，一般過去時及過去分詞 chalked up to)

1. (及物，俗語) 將...歸因於

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

   將他沒有完成歸因於恐懼。

   • 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 頁:

     “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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近義詞

• put down to