ascribe: suggests an inferring or conjecturing of a cause, quality, or authorship not outwardly apparent: none of the frivolity commonly ~ to teenagers.   (conjecture推测,还不能确定scientist could only conjecture about the animal's breeding cycle科学家只能推测动物生育周期)


attribute: may suggest the plausibility and appropriateness of the indicated relation: ~ the project's failure to poor planning.


assign: implies ascribing with certainty or after deliberation: an investigatory panel ~ed blame to top officials.


impute: suggests ascribing something that brings discredit by way of accusation or blame:  tried to ~ evil motives to my actions.

credit: implies ascribing a thing or especially an action to a person or other thing as its agent, source, or explanation: ~ed his insecurities to an unhappy childhood.


charge: implies a fixing upon a person or thing of the responsibility for a fault, crime, or evil: ~d with the crime of murder. (倒装句，正常语序中upon a person or thing应放最后)


ascribe归于: 通过推理推测得出原因作者性质，常不明显，attribute归因: 表示合理合适(plausible看似可以接受的,appropriate非常合适eminent and distinctive fitness)，assign认定: 表示很确定或经过了思考，impute指责:  即指责责备(accuse,blame)，影响名声(discredit名声受损)，credit归于:  将某物特别是某行为归因于某人或物，认为是其经办人来源或解释，charge指控起诉: ==formal accusation正式指责，认定对错误或罪恶负责。


记忆方法: 1）首字母AAACIC想成A Chinese Is Always A Chinese中国人永远是中国人<==归因于文化


         2）归因的意思是认为某物是其他人物的原由mean to lay something to the account of a person or thing.  (account这里表示原因理由，the paper was rejected on account of its length论文因为长度问题遭拒)