account for 详细解释

account for

[ə'kauntfər]

vt.(在数量方面)占, 说明(原因等), 对 ... 负责

1. 说明; 证明

He could not account for his foolish mistake.

他无法解释他所犯的荒谬的错误。

2. 对……负有责任

Who will have to account for the misprints in the dictionary?

谁必须对字典中的印刷错误负责?

词义辨析

同义参见:

specify  

英英释义

动词 account for:

be the reason or explanation for

give reasons for

补充

account foraccount for1.说明〔解释〕…原因His illness accounts for his absence.他因为生病, 所以才缺席。Two things account for its occurrence.发生这件事的原因有两个。The disappearance of the papers has never been accounted for.那些文件丢得莫名其妙。How do you account for losing five games in a row?你如何解释一连输了五场比赛呢?Lack of money accounts for her discontinuing her studies.缺钱是她辍学的原因。

例句

1. Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.计算机用电占该国商业用电的5%。 2. Software accounts for over half of our product range.软件在我们的产品系列中占一半以上。 3. Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.目前为止他们发现的基因还不能解释所有的病例。 4. If she was ill, that would account for her poor results.要是她那时病了, 她成绩不佳就不足为奇了。 5. How do you account for the company's high staff turnover?公司员工流动率高, 你如何解释？ 6. How do you account for the dent in the car?汽车上那个凹痕怎么回事？ 7. Over the years thousands of police have had to account for their actions before the courts.多年来, 成千上万名警察无奈出庭, 对自己的行为作出解释。 8. All the children were accounted for.所有的孩子都找到了。 9. He said only 200 of the train's 600 passengers had been accounted for.他说火车上的600名乘客中仅有200名确认生还。 10. Four people are still not accounted for.还有4个人没有被找到。 11. Mr Howard said the $4 million had been accounted for.霍华德先生说那400万美元已经算进去了。 12. The really heavy redundancy costs have been accounted for.庞大的裁员费用已经包括在内。 13. In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft.五月的头十天, 我们中队至少摧毁了七架敌机。 14. Jack could not account for his foolish mistake.杰克无法解释自己的愚蠢错误。 15. He has to account to the chairman for all the money he spends.他必须向主席说明他所花掉所有钱的去向。 16. The flood accounted for the bad crop.水灾导致歉收。 17. The policemen accounted for three terrorists at the airport.警察在飞机场击毙了三名恐怖分子。 18. It will take her fifteen years in prison to account for such horrible crime.她犯下如此可怕的罪行，得坐15年牢。 19. You will have to account for the disappearance of the money.你要对丢失了钱负责。 20. It accounts for 15 per cent of all air accidents.它占所有空难的15%。 21. "Eventually, you will need to account for your actions/behavior."你终究得对自己的行为做出解释。 22. How do you account for [=explain] your success?你认为自己是怎样取得成功的？ 23. "I don't see why they liked the movie, but there's no accounting for taste."我不明白他们为什么喜欢这部电影，不过人各有所好嘛。 24. "The disease accounted for over 10,000 deaths last year."去年，这种病导致1万多人死亡。 25. These new features account for the computer's higher price.这些新功能使得这款电脑价格较高。 26. The disease cannot be accounted for [=explained] by genetics alone. There must be other causes as well.仅从遗传学的角度难以解释这种疾病，一定还有其他病因。 27. "Women account for [=constitute, compose] only 25 percent of our employees."女员工仅占我们员工总数的25%。 28. The researchers failed to account for the fact that most of the students were poor.研究者没有考虑这样一个事实：这些学生大部分都很穷。 29. We have to account for the time [=to say how much time] we spend on each activity.我们得对花在每一项活动上的时间加以说明。 30. I'll have to account for the money I spent.我得说明那些钱我是怎么花的。 31. The government couldn't account for millions of dollars of the taxpayers' money.政府无法说明将纳税人数百万的资金用在何处。 32. Is everyone accounted for? [=do we know where everyone is?]所有人的下落都知道了吗？ 33. All present and accounted for. [=everyone who is supposed to be here is here]该到的人都到齐了。 34. "Enemy fighters have accounted for most of our bombers, Sir."长官，敌机摧毁了我们的大部分轰炸机。 35. We accounted for [=dispatched] the challengers 3-2.我们以3：2击败了挑战者。

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