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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，到時候不頂用，別來怪我。）

Everyone wants to blame the referees when their team loses.（球隊輸了，大家都怨裁判不公。）

The decision to increase interest rates was widely blamed (= blamed by many people ) for the crisis.（很多人把金融危機歸咎于利率提高。）

For many years I blamed myself for her death.（多年來我一直為她的死而自責。）

One of the computers is broken and she's blaming it on me.（其中一臺電腦壞了，然后她怪我。）

The crash was blamed on pilot error.（這次飛機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)民把自己的困境都歸咎于歐盟政策不好。）

補充：''blame''做名詞時，還有兩個常見搭配：

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，錯在警方。）

備注：lie解“躺下”時，過去式為“l(fā)ay”；lie解“說謊”時，過去式為“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，但我跟這件事一點關系都沒有。）

How can you say it's my fault that you lost your job?（你丟了工作，怎么能說是我的錯？）

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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.（他們沒證據(jù)就來控告我。）

Are you accusing her of lying?（你說她說謊？）

The woman was accused of having beaten her four-year-old daughter.（這個女人被控毒打她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，將來有什么問題別找我。）

補充：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.（貨物沒到，我們讓貨運公司負全責。）

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。）

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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 責怪把壞消息告訴你的那個人

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.（他把這個壞消息告訴你，你不聽，反而責怪他，你就無法了解事情原委，自然也無法處理。）