Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity.
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vt. 认为…是;把…归于;把…品质归于某人;认为某事[物]属于某人[物];
💡 tribu-, trib- 表”任命,分配,给予”
"Archaeologists attribute the ruin to a flourishing prehistoric kingdom."
考古学家认为这些废墟属于一个繁荣的史前王国.
近义:impute, ascribe, assign, attach, blame, credit
反义:absolve, pardon, purge, release, resolve, acquit
n. 恶意,恶感;怨恨;[法]预谋;祸心;
💡 mal坏,恶+ice名词后缀,表状态→恶意
"He was actuated entirely by malice."
他完全是出于恶意。
近义:hostility, perversity, pique, rancor, rancour, resentment
反义:humaneness, humanism, humanitarianism, humanity, kindliness, kindness
stupidity
[stju'piditi]
n. 愚蠢;愚行;蠢事;蠢话;
"I couldn't believe my own stupidity."
我干的蠢事我自己都不能相信。
近义:idiocy, imbecility, inanity, asininity, ludicrousness, nonsense
反义:aptness, intellect, invention, argument, knack, mentality
adv. 足够地, 适当地
近义:appositely, appropriately, properly, seemly, well, befittingly
反义:improperly, inappropriately, unsuitably