vt. 指责，责怪；归咎于；
n. 责备；责任；过失；
1. 用作名词，通常是不可数名词，注意以下它与不同动词和介词搭配：
He put [laid, cast, charged] all the blame on me. 他把一切都归咎于我。
We were ready to take [bear, accept, get] the blame for what had happened. 我们准备对所发生的事负责。
2. 用作动词，通常为及物动词，注意以下同义句型：
She blamed me for the failure.=She blamed the failure on me. 她把失败归咎于我。
虽为及物动词（可以带宾语），但在表示被动意义时，它通常用主动形式。如：
Nobody is to blame for it. 这谁也不怨。
Which driver was to blame for the accident? 这事是哪位司机的责任?
3.固定搭配
blame sth on sb 把某事的责任归咎于某人。如：
The driver blamed the accident on the cyclist. 司机把事故的责任归咎于骑自行车的人。
注：以上两类结构有时可互换，注意词序不同。如：
He blamed the failure on me. / He blamed me for the failure. 他把失败归咎于我。
be to blame for sth 对(做)某事应负责任。如：
You are not to blame for what happened. 对所发生的事不应该由你负责。
Which driver was to blame for the accident? 那个司机应该对事故负责?
Who is to blame for starting the fire? 火灾的引起应该由谁来负责?
put the blame on sb (把某事)归咎于某人。如：
He put [laid] all the blame on me. 他把一切都归咎于我。
The judge put [laid] the blame for the accident on the driver of the car. 法官把事故的责任归咎于汽车司机。
1. The blame for the Charleston fiasco did not lie with him.
查尔斯顿惨败错不在他。
2. She seemed to be placing most of the blame on her mother.
她好像把大部分责任都推到了母亲身上。
3. If their forces were not involved, then who is to blame?
如果他们的部队没有介入，那么谁应该承担责任？
4. Talk things through in stages. Do not accuse or apportion blame.
把事情按部就班地讲清楚。不要责难或归罪于人。
5. It is the easy way out to blame others for our failure.
把我们的失败归罪到别人头上倒是省事。
6. Eleanor would later blame her mother-in-law for her husband'sfrequent absences.
埃莉诺过后会因丈夫经常不在家而责怪婆婆。