But even without gadgets that understand our spoken commands, research suggests that, as bizarre as it sounds, under certain circumstances, people regularly ascribe human traits to everyday objects.
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柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义
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把…归因于；把…归咎于
If you ascribe an event or condition to a particular cause, you say or consider that it was caused by that thing.