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The ministry attributes the increase to greater efforts by schools to tackle and report bullying, praising them for "acting quickly to catch even the light cases."  [10/28 JT]

今日は一面の"Bullying reports up amid stronger effort by schools:ministry"という記事から。

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attribute A to Bの形でAはBに起因する、おかげである(=ascribe)

これを日→英で使えるようになれば！