No. 6,232 in Chinese
归咎
"归咎" means to attribute blame or fault to someone or something.
In a sentence
他把失败归咎于运气不好。
He attributed the failure to bad luck.
In this sentence, '归咎' is used to attribute the cause of a negative outcome to bad luck.
似乎每次出问题，他们都喜欢归咎于一个团队的领导。
It seems that every time there's an issue, they like to blame the leader of a team.
Here, '归咎' is used to indicate blaming or holding the leader accountable for the problem.
我们不该仅仅因为一些小错误就归咎于我们的同事。
We shouldn't blame our colleagues solely for some small mistakes.
In this sentence, '归咎' encourages reflecting on the fairness of assigning blame or responsibility to others.
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