account for

英[ə'kaʊntfɔː] 美[ə'kaʊntfɔːr]

vt. (在数量方面)占；说明(原因等)；对 ... 负责；导致，引起；击毙，杀死；报账

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星级词汇:

accede to vt.答应；就位；参加

Verb:

be the reason or explanation for;
"The recession accounts for the slow retail business"
give reasons for;
"Can you account for all these absences?"

1. How do you account for the fact that unemployment is still rising?: 你如何解释失业人数仍在增加这个现实？

2. The gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.: 他们今天发现的那种基因解释不了所有的那些情况。

3. The social services account for a substantial part of public spending.: 社会服务性事业占政府开支的相当大的一部分。

4. Paul appeared before the faculty to account for his various misdemeanours.: 保罗在全体教职员面前解释了他的种种不端行为。

5. Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.: 电脑占了这个国家商业用电的5%。

6. Currently, disposables account for about 80% to 85% of the $3 billion-plus annual diaper market.: 目前，一次性尿布占年销售额30多亿美元的尿布市场的80%至85%左右。

7. How do I account for it?: 我怎么解释呢？

8. I cannot account for it.: 我无法解释。

9. What might account for this strange phenomenon?: 什么可以解释这种奇怪的现象？

10. Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S.: 汽车耗油量占美国石油消耗量的一半。

11. Car thefts account for a quarter of all recorded crime.: 汽车盗窃占所有记录在案的犯罪的四分之一。

12. It should at least account for 50% of the total investment.: 它至少占了投资总额的50%。

13. Cross-cultural comparisons can't account for differences of opinion.: 跨文化的比较并不能解释意见的差异。

14. Too much pressure may account for your recent low efficiency in study.: 你最近学习低效可能是压力太大导致的。

15. They actually account for almost all of the meteorite material that falls to earth.: 它们实际上在落在地球上的陨石物质中占了接近总数。

16. Exactly, these gases account for nearly half the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.: 确切地说，这些气体占温室气体排放量的近一半。

17. Some hypotheses fail to account for simultaneous extinctions on land and in the seas.: 有些假说不能解释同时发生在陆地和海洋的灭绝。

18. Conversely, if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade.: 相反，如果家庭作业很重要，它应该占分数的很大一部分。

19. Weighing every other week allows me to observe and account for any significant weight changes.: 每隔一周称重一次让我能发现并解释体重的任何明显变化。

20. In any case, they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop-lifting.: 无论如何，它们只占购物活动造成的总损失的一小部分。

21. You see how this epicycle theory could account for the seemingly backward motion of the planet.: 你可以看到这个本轮理论是如何解释行星看起来像在做反向运动的。

22. Architects try to account for this effect in their design, but they can't guarantee a full auditorium.: 建筑师试图在他们的设计中考虑这种影响，但他们不能保证礼堂满座。

23. Is there anything else that might account for this change in muscular activity, other than saying that it is thinking?: 除了说它在思考之外，还有什么其他原因可以解释肌肉活动的这种变化吗？

24. International affiliates account for a fast-growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment.: 在那些开放并欢迎外国投资的经济体中，国际子公司在生产中占了一个快速增长的部分。

25. International affiliates account for a fast-growing segment of production in economies that open up and welcome foreign investment.: 在那些开放并欢迎外国投资的经济体中，国际子公司在生产中占了一个快速增长的部分。

26. Unless smokers are consistently located near more hospitable warm-water vents, chemosynthesis can account for only a fraction of the vent faunas.: 除非烟囱始终位于更适宜的暖水喷口附近，否则化学合成只能占喷口动物群的一小部分。

27. How do you account for the show's success?: 你认为这次演出为何成功？

28. We have to account for every penny we spend on business trips.: 我们出公差所用的每一分钱都得报清楚。

29. How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover?: 你怎么解释这家公司高得惊人的人员流动率？

30. The president and the president alone must account for his government's reforms.: 该总统并且只有总统一个人必须对他的这些政府改革负责。

用作及物动词 (vt.)

Petrochemicals today account for one fourth of all the chemicals made, in ten years this amount is expected to double.
石油化工产品现在已占所有化学制品的四分之一，十年后预计这个数目还要加倍。
Students account for 50% of our customers.
在我们的顾客中,学生占了一半。
He has been asked to account for his conduct.
他被要求解释他的行为。
He could not account for his absence from school.
他无法说明他旷课的原因。
The treasurer has to account for the money paid to him.
财务负责人必须说明交给他的钱是怎样用的。
Please account for your disgraceful conduct.
对你的可耻行为请作解释。

for the account 待结算日结账...
lay one's account for 把…计算在内...
account for (在数量方面)占...
for the account and risk of 代 ... 买卖而盈...
for account of 代销为(在 ......

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