• 说明，解释

Verb:

1. be the reason or explanation for;

   "The recession accounts for the slow retail business"
   

2. give reasons for;

   "Can you account for all these absences?"
   

1.（数量或比例上）占
If a particular thingaccounts for a part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it.

e.g. Computersaccountfor 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.
计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。

2.导致；解释
If somethingaccounts for a particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it.

e.g. Now, the gene they discovered today doesn'taccountfor all those cases.
不过，他们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的病例。

3.为…提出理由;对…作出说明
If you canaccount for something, you can explain it or give the necessary information about it.

e.g. How do youaccountfor 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？
e.g. He said only 200 of the train's 600 passengers had been accountedfor.
他说火车上的600名乘客中仅有200名乘客的信息得已查明。

4.对（行动、政策等）负有责任
If someone has toaccount for an action or policy, they are responsible for it, and may be required to explain it to other people or be punished if it fails.

e.g. The President and the President alone mustaccountfor his government's reforms.
总统必须为他的政府改革负责，而且是负全责。

5.将（钱款）列入预算
If a sum of moneyis accounted for in a budget, it has been included in that budget for a particular purpose.

account for的反义词

e.g. The really heavy redundancy costs have been accountedfor.
非常庞大的裁员开支已被列入预算。

6.杀死；消灭；打败
If youaccount for an enemy or opponent, you kill, destroy, or beat them.

e.g. In the first ten days of May our squadron accountedfor 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。
e.g. In the final they accountedfor Brentford by three goals to two.
决赛时他们以3比2击败了布伦特福德队。

1. account for的近义词

1. 解释,说明：勾勒这一新的电子采购系统的委员会面临许多麻烦的问题:如何开发一个将解释说明(accountfor)各种各样的公共机构的系统?如何获得开发这一系统的资源?如何为作为技术管理解决方案的项目建立并维护强有力的政治支持,不导致政治报复?

2. 说明(原因等)：according to / / 根据 |accountfor / / 说明(原因等) | accustomed to / / 习惯于

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。

Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.

计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。

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。

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？

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。

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 really heavy redundancy costs have been accounted for.

非常庞大的裁员开支已被列入预算。

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。

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。

We have to account for every penny we spend on business trips.

我们得把出差花费的每一分钱都说明清楚.

Remittances sometimes account for as much as 20 % of GDP.

在这些国家中,此类汇款有时会占到GDP的20%之多.

At the same time, you may be able to account for some of the cheapest.

与此同时, 你也许可以占些便宜.

How do you account for his sudden disappearance?

你怎么样解释他的突然消失?

They account for only 1 or 2 or 3 per cent of the five million intellectuals.

这种人在五百万左右的人数中间,大约只占百分之一、二、三.

Nevertheless, the currency impact can account for the substantial change in China's price level.

然而, 货币冲击能够解释一般价格水平变化的实质性部分.

Nor does the ideal of national unity account for internal diversity and conflict.

同样与之不相符的还有因为内部多样性和内部冲突而提出的民族统一的理想.

In this article , we discuss plausible mechanisms that may account for this association.

文中对这种联系的可能机制进行了讨论.

Acetylcholine, amino acids and NTFS contained in NDT may account for the effects.

分析与脑多肽中含有大量的乙酰胆碱 、 多种氨基酸和NTFs有关.

The minority nationalities account for six per cent of the population.

少数民族占人口的百分之六.

Artificial lighting can account for 15 percent of a home's electricity use.

人工照明可以占百分之十五的家庭的用电.

Natural gas reserves and output account for the total reserves and output of about 90 %.

天然气的储量和产量均占总储量和产量的90%左右.

The mate observed regretfully that he could not account for that young fellow's whims.

那位伙伴很遗憾地说他不能说出那年轻人产生怪念头的原因.

We can not account for his failure in the English examination.

我们无法解释他为什么在英语考试中未考好.

These products, in total, account for about 80'uff05 of all our sales.

这些产品总共约占我们全部销售额的80%.

I was called to account for my conduct by the headmistress.

我因为行为不检点而受到女校长的斥责.

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 ?

I couldn't account for the lump in my throat as I told him the news.

当我告诉他那个消息时,不知为什么哽咽起来.

I can not account for his almost impudence.

我无法解释他为什么几乎近似无礼.

Two things account for its occurrence.

发生这件事的原因有两个.

How can we account for the recent population explosion?

我们如何能解释最近人口激增的现象?

Ministers should be called to account for their actions.

部长们应该对他们的行为作出解释。