Weak third-quarter data was chalked up to bottlenecks in the car industry, which had to meet new emissions standards for diesel engines.

第三季度数据的疲软被归咎于汽车行业中的瓶颈，汽车行业必须符合柴油机的排放新标准。

Like, the fact of coal being near the surface in Britain can’t be chalked up to British cultural superiority.

就像，煤炭在英国接近地表的事实不能归因于英国的文化优势。

But this can be chalked up to the excessively high cost of their books — which has increased over 1,000 percent since 1977.

但这有可能是因为高昂的课本价格，从 1977 年以来，课本价格已经上涨了 10 倍以上。

(Laughter) A lot of these things can be chalked up to misunderstandings, both about what language is and about the formal study of language, about linguistics.

（笑声）很多这些事情都可以归结为误解，无论是关于语言是什么， 还是关于语言的正式研究， 关于语言学。

Surveys show that younger generations are more concerned about climate change, and some of the success of plant-based meat can be chalked up to shoppers wanting to signal their desire to protect the environment.

调查显示，年轻一代更关心气候变化，植物肉类的某种成功可归功于购物者想要表达他们保护环境的愿望。

Her fears that radicals would poison the movement were chalked up to simple bigotry—and it is true that she labelled lesbians " the lavender menace" , for which she spent decades apologising.

她担心激进分子会毒害这场运动， 这被归咎于简单的偏执——她确实给女同性恋贴上了“薰衣草威胁”的标签，为此她花了几十年的时间道歉。

At first, the move was chalked up to typical business maneuverings — NetEase took over the license from Shanghai-based developer The9 Limited in 2009 — and players were optimistic Blizzard had a new partner waiting in the wings.

起初，这一举动被认为是典型的商业运作——网易在2009年从上海开发商第九城市手中收购了游戏许可证——玩家们当时乐观地认为暴雪有了一个新的合作伙伴。

Sometimes we use " chalk it up" when we don't necessarily like what has happened;you're not happy about Tam becoming a vegetarian, so you have to give a reason for it: you chalk up to his girlfriend.

有时当我们不一定喜欢发生的事情时， 我们会用“chalk it up” ； 你对 Tam 成为素食主义者不高兴，所以你必须给个理由吧：你给女朋友粉笔了。

The investigations undertaken by the project were intended to debunk speculation that UFOs were extraterrestrial, but of the nearly 13,000 sightings that were studied, 701 of them couldn't be chalked up to weird weather or human made objects.

该项目进行的调查旨在揭穿不明飞行物是外星人的猜测，但在研究的近 13,000 次目击事件中，有 701 次不能归因于奇怪的天气或人造物体。

So Chris's story has a happy ending. He was able to take $20,000 and use it to pay for his college tuition. But even he acknowledges that a lot of his success is just chalked up to luck.

所以克里斯的故事有一个圆满的结局。他能够拿出 20,000 美元并用它来支付他的大学学费。但即使是他也承认，他的很多成功都归功于运气。