account for

英 [əˈkaʊnt fɔː(r)]

美 [əˈkaʊnt fɔːr]

（数量或比例上）占; 导致，解释（某种事实或情况）; 解释，说明（某事）; （某人）对（行动、政策等）负有责任; 将（钱款）列入（预算）

TOEFLIELTS

柯林斯词典

• PHRASAL VERB （数量或比例上）占
  If a particular thingaccounts fora part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it.
  1. Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.
     计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。
• PHRASAL VERB 导致；解释
  If somethingaccounts fora particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it.
  1. Now, the gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.
     不过，他们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的病例。
• PHRASAL VERB 为…提出理由;对…作出说明
  If you canaccount forsomething, you can explain it or give the necessary information about it.
  1. How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover?...
     你怎么解释这家公司高得令人忧虑的人员流动率？
  2. 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名乘客的信息得已查明。
• PHRASAL VERB 对（行动、政策等）负有责任
  If someone has toaccount foran action or policy, they are responsible for it, and may be required to explain it to other people or be punished if it fails.
  1. The President and the President alone must account for his government's reforms.
     总统必须为他的政府改革负责，而且是负全责。
• PHRASAL VERB 将（钱款）列入预算
  If a sum of moneyis accounted forin a budget, it has been included in that budget for a particular purpose.
  1. The really heavy redundancy costs have been accounted for.
     非常庞大的裁员开支已被列入预算。
• PHRASAL VERB 杀死；消灭；打败
  If youaccount foran enemy or opponent, you kill, destroy, or beat them.
  1. In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft...
     5月的头10天里我们中队至少报销了7架敌机。
  2. In the final they accounted for Brentford by three goals to two.
     决赛时他们以3比2击败了布伦特福德队。

英英释义

verb

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

双语例句

• Catering may now account for close on a quarter of pub turnover.
  承办酒席现在可能占酒吧营业额的近1/4。
• How to account for these national differences?
  如何解释这些国与国之间的差别？
• Ministers should be called to account for their actions.
  部长们应该对他们的行为作出解释。
• 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名乘客的信息得已查明。
• We should pay more attention to the poor and disadvantaged groups because they account for the majority of society.
  我们的经济工作和社会发展都要更多地关注穷人，关注弱势群体，因为他们在我们的社会中还占大多数。
• The President and the President alone must account for his government's reforms.
  总统必须为他的政府改革负责，而且是负全责。
• The social services account for a substantial part of public spending.
  社会福利事业占了一大部分的公共支出。
• How are you going to account for this?
  这个问题你怎么交代？
• If you don't give us a receipt, how are we going to account for it?
  你不开收据，我们回去怎么交差？
• How do you account for the dent in the car?
  你对车上的凹痕作何解释？