account for
短语对…负有责任；对…做出解释；说明……的原因；导致；（比例）占
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释义与例句
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1.
To explain by relating circumstances; to show that some one, thing or members of a group are present or have been processed.
及物I don't have to account for anything to you.
The storekeeper was expected to account for any material removed.
[…] But there are still four cartridges in the revolver. Two have been fired and two wounds inflicted, so that each bullet can be accounted for.
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2.
To be the primary cause of
及物The torrential downpour would account for the saturated state of the land.
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3.
To constitute in amount or portion.
及物German speakers accounted for 37% of the population.
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To make or render a reckoning of funds, persons, or things.
及物1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries His mind accounted for one useless article after another in a vain search for any kind of makeshift tool. Not a scrap of metal, not even a serviceable edge of broken stone or brick, had been left to suggest escape.
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To be answerable for.
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To destroy or put out of action.
及物Coyotes account for more rabbits than hunters do.
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To kill, as in hunting.
过时 及物He accounted for two deer today.