| 词组 | account |
| 释义 | account I See on account of. II When account is used as an intransitive verb, it is regularly followed by the preposition for: • ... arms and space programs account for seventy per cent of available federal expenditures —Donald McDonald, Center Mag., July/August 1970 • ... won twenty-seven games while losing ten, thereby accounting for nearly half of his team's total victories for the year —Roger Angell, New Yorker, 11 Nov. 1972 • ... still incapable of accounting for facts that are obvious to introspection —Noam Chomsky, Columbia Forum, Spring 1968 • ... the Humour definition quite fails to account for the total effect produced —T. S. Eliot, "Ben Jonson," in Selected Essays, 1932 |
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