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1. blame: to say or think that
someone is responsible for something bad that has happened
例：
It's your idea - don't blame me if it
doesn't work.（這是你的主意，到時(shí)候不頂用，別來(lái)怪我。）
Everyone wants to blame the referees when
their team loses.（球隊(duì)輸了，大家都怨裁判不公。）
The decision to increase interest rates was widely blamed (= blamed
by many people ) for the crisis.（很多人把金融危機(jī)歸咎于利率提高。）
For many years I blamed myself for her
death.（多年來(lái)我一直為她的死而自責(zé)。）
One of the computers is broken and she's
blaming it on me.（其中一臺(tái)電腦壞了，然后她怪我。）
The crash was blamed on pilot error.（這次飛機(jī)失事歸咎于飛行員失誤。）
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2. put/lay/place the blame on somebody: to say who you think is responsible for something bad that has
happened, often unfairly or wrongly
例：
Don't try to put the blame on me!（別想怨我?。?/span>
She stole the money but she's trying to put
the blame on me.（她自己偷了錢，還想冤枉我。）
Farmers have laid the blame for their
problems entirely on EU policies.（農(nóng)民把自己的困境都?xì)w咎于歐盟政策不好。）
補(bǔ)充：''blame''做名詞時(shí)，還有兩個(gè)常見搭配：
① the blame
lies with somebody: used to say that someone is
responsible for something bad
例：
In this case, the blame lay with the
police.（這件案子中，錯(cuò)在警方。）
備注：lie解“躺下”時(shí)，過(guò)去式為“l(fā)ay”；lie解“說(shuō)謊”時(shí)，過(guò)去式為“l(fā)ied”。
② point the
finger of blame at somebody: say that someone is
responsible for something bad
例：
I couldn't believe it when they started
pointing the finger of blame at me.（我不敢相信他們竟然怨我。）
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3. say it's somebody's fault: to say
that someone is responsible for something bad that has happened
備注：''say it's
somebody's fault''常用在口語(yǔ)中。
例：
Everyone is saying it's my fault, but I had
nothing to do with it.（大家都怪我，但我跟這件事一點(diǎn)關(guān)系都沒(méi)有。）
How can you say it's my fault that you lost
your job?（你丟了工作，怎么能說(shuō)是我的錯(cuò)？）
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4. accuse: to say that someone is
guilty of a crime or of doing something bad
例：
They're accusing me without any proof.（他們沒(méi)證據(jù)就來(lái)控告我。）
Are you accusing her of lying?（你說(shuō)她說(shuō)謊？）
The woman was accused of having beaten her
four-year-old daughter.（這個(gè)女人被控毒打她4歲的女兒。）
Scott has been accused of first-degree
murder.（斯科特被控一級(jí)謀殺罪。）
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5. hold somebody responsible: to say
that it is someone's fault that something bad has happened because you think it
was their duty to prevent this from happening
例：
It's your decision - you can't hold me
responsible if it goes wrong.（這是你的決定，將來(lái)有什么問(wèn)題別找我。）
補(bǔ)充：類似的還有''hold
somebody responsible for something''。
例：
Alex still holds his mother responsible for
the divorce.（艾利克斯始終認(rèn)為他母親是他離婚的主要原因。）
hold somebody partly/largely/entirely
responsible
The shipment never arrived, and we are
holding the freight company entirely responsible.（貨物沒(méi)到，我們讓貨運(yùn)公司負(fù)全責(zé)。）
hold somebody personally responsible (=blame one person only)
If anything happens to Tom, I'll hold you
personally responsible.（如果湯姆出了什么事，我拿你是問(wèn)。）
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6. shoot/blame the messenger: to be
angry with the person who tells you about something bad, instead of the person
who caused it to happen 責(zé)怪把壞消息告訴你的那個(gè)人
備注：''messenger''原意是“送信人”。
例：
If you don't listen and instead shoot the
messenger, you're not going to learn about the problems you need to deal with.（他把這個(gè)壞消息告訴你，你不聽，反而責(zé)怪他，你就無(wú)法了解事情原委，自然也無(wú)法處理。）
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