大学英语四六级必考词组 account for
释义:
account for 对…负有责任;对…做出解释;说明……的原因;导致;(比例)占
例句:
How do you account for the fact that unemployment is still rising?
你如何解释失业人数仍在增加这个现实?
The gene they discovered today doesn't account for all those cases.
他们今天发现的那种基因解释不了所有的那些情况。
The social services account for a substantial part of public spending.
社会服务性事业占政府开支的相当大的一部分。
Paul appeared before the faculty to account for his various misdemeanours.
保罗在全体教职员面前解释了他的种种不端行为。
Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.
电脑占了这个国家商业用电的5%。
How do I account for it?
我怎么解释呢?
I cannot account for it.
我无法解释。
What might account for this strange phenomenon?
什么可以解释这种奇怪的现象?
Of course, no index can account for everything.
当然,没有任何索引可以解释一切。
Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S.
汽车耗油量占美国石油消耗量的一半。
Car thefts account for a quarter of all recorded crime.
汽车盗窃占所有记录在案的犯罪的四分之一。
It should at least account for 50% of the total investment.
它至少占了投资总额的50%。
Cross-cultural comparisons can't account for differences of opinion.
跨文化的比较并不能解释意见的差异。
Too much pressure may account for your recent low efficiency in study.
你最近学习低效可能是压力太大导致的。
They actually account for almost all of the meteorite material that falls to earth.
它们实际上在落在地球上的陨石物质中占了接近总数。
Exactly, these gases account for nearly half the amount of greenhouse gas emissions.
确切地说,这些气体占温室气体排放量的近一半。
Some hypotheses fail to account for simultaneous extinctions on land and in the seas.
有些假说不能解释同时发生在陆地和海洋的灭绝。
Conversely, if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade.
相反,如果家庭作业很重要,它应该占分数的很大一部分。
In any case, they account for only a small percentage of the total losses due to shop-lifting.
无论如何,它们只占购物活动造成的总损失的一小部分。
You see how this epicycle theory could account for the seemingly backward motion of the planet.
你可以看到这个本轮理论是如何解释行星看起来像在做反向运动的。