首页英语词典accountaccount的意思

account

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n. 账户；解释；账目，账单；理由
vi. 解释；导致；报账
vt. 认为；把…视为

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词态变化

复数: accounts;第三人称单数: accounts;过去式: accounted;过去分词: accounted;现在分词: accounting;

助记提示

1. ac- + count.
2. => to count, count to.

中文词源

account 帐目

来自法语，来自于拉丁语compute,来自于词根put,思考，计算。

英英释意

1. a formal contractual relationship established to provide for regular banking or brokerage or business services;: "he asked to see the executive who handled his account"

2. the act of informing by verbal report;: "he heard reports that they were causing trouble"; "by all accounts they were a happy couple"

3. a record or narrative description of past events;: "a history of France"; "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president"; "the story of exposure to lead"

4. a short account of the news;: "the report of his speech"; "the story was on the 11 o'clock news"; "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"

5. a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance;: "they send me an accounting every month"

6. a statement that makes something comprehensible by describing the relevant structure or operation or circumstances etc.;: "the explanation was very simple"; "I expected a brief account"

7. an itemized statement of money owed for goods shipped or services rendered;: "he paid his bill and left"; "send me an account of what I owe"

8. grounds;: "don't do it on my account"; "the paper was rejected on account of its length"; "he tried to blame the victim but his success on that score was doubtful"

9. importance or value;: "a person of considerable account"; "he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance"

10. the quality of taking advantage;: "she turned her writing skills to good account"

英文词源

account: account: [14] Account is of Old French origin. It was formed from compter, conter ‘count’ (which derived from Latin computāre) and the prefix a-. Its original meaning in English, too, was ‘count’ or ‘count up’; this had disappeared by the end of the 18th century, but its specialized reference to the keeping of financial records is of equal antiquity. Account for, meaning ‘explain’, arose in the mid 18th century.
=> count
account (n.): c. 1300, "reckoning of money received and paid," from Old French acont "account, reckoning, terminal payment," from a "to" (see ad-) + cont "counting, reckoning of money to be paid," from Late Latin computus "a calculation," from Latin computare "calculate" (see compute).

Meaning "sum of (one's) money in a bank" is from 1833. Sense of "narration" is first attested 1610s. Plural accounts used as a collective or singular in phrases such as to give accounts (of something), is from mid-13c. Phrase by all accounts is attested from 1798.
account (v.): c. 1300, "to count, enumerate," from Old French aconter "to count, render account" (Modern French conter), from a "to" (see ad-) + conter "to count, tell" (see count (v.)). Meaning "to reckon for money given or received, render a reckoning," is from late 14c.; sense of "to explain" (c. 1710) is from notion of "answer for money held in trust." Transferred sense of "value" is from late 14c. Related: Accounted; accounting.

同义词辨析

account, report

这两个名词的有"报道，叙述"之意。

account：普通用词，不如report正式，侧重对亲身经历或目睹之事所作的书面或口头的报道或叙述。

report：正式用词，多指报刊上的报道，强调对情况经过调查或审核后作出的详尽叙述，具有一定权威性。

explain, interpret, illustrate, clarify, account

这些动词均有"说明"之意。

explain：含义广，最普通用词，指把某事向原来不了解、不清楚的人解释明白、说清楚等。

interpret：着重以特殊的知识、经验来解释难理解的事情。

illustrate：多指用实例或插图、图表加以说明。

clarify：指把已发生的事件。情况和现状说清楚。

account：说明某事物如何符合自然法则或逻辑。

考试真题

Within two years, Leah shed the safety of her accounting job and made the switch complete.

Initially Leah stayed with her accounting job while starting up the yoga studio to make it all work.

In her search to live a life of purpose, Leah left her high-paying accounting job, her husband, and her home.

After graduating with a degree in business and accounting, she joined a public accounting firm, married, bought a house, put lots of stuff in it, and had a baby.

One reason is that more countries are big oil producers now, so the nations suffering from the price drop account for a larger share of the global economy.

Oil importers account for a larger portion of the global economy.

According to the FBI, crimes like these accounted for roughly twothirds of all household burglaries in the US in 2013.

E-books now account for 14 percent of all book sales in the country and are increasing far faster than overall book sales.

Which is why I'm considering deactivating(撤销)my account.

Why does the author plan to cancel his Facebook account

But you both need to know what you're doing, who's paying what into the joint account and how much you keep separately.

At the age of six she started reading the daily financial newspapers and opened her own bank account.

What could have accounted for Al Herpin's sleeplessness?

In fact, they are less significant, but steel-related manufacturing still accounts for 44% of industrial activity.

It accounts for 80 percent of the region's GDP

A different interpretation is possible when the actual amount of information acquired by the user is taken into account.

I just got a text message from my bank, saying my salary has been deposited in my account.

If you have a G-mail account, you can create, save and send tables in addition to written documents like your cover letter and resume.

The district said it started notifying parents about negative account balances Monday.

The museum's social media account has been flooded with messages of support.

We need very broad participation to fully address the global tragedy that results when countries fail to take into account the negative impact of their carbon emissions on the rest of the world.

Renewables account for only a small share of global primary energy consumption, which is still dominated by fossil fuels—30% each for coal and oil, 25% for natural gas.

In contrast, the criminal justice system accounted for nearly one out of every five visual backgrounds.

Agriculture is a water-intensive business, accounting for nearly 70% of global fresh water consumption.

Overall, stress-related health problems account for up to 90% of hospital visits, many of them preventable.

Take costs into account when making treatment decisions.

It is also easier for a dissatisfied company to give its account to another agency than it would be to fire their own advertising staff.

Of course, no index can account for everything.

And cross-cultural comparisons can t account for difference of opinion

The production and application of fertilisers and pesticides account for the largest part of energy use in the modern industrialised agricultural process.

What accounted for America's baby boom?

Newspapers relay daily accounts of goal-setting prevalent in industries and businesses up and down both Wall Street and Main Street , yet there has been surprisingly little research on how the long-trumpeted practice of setting goals may have contributed to the current economic crisis , and unethical （不道德的）behavior in general.

Advocates of the practice have taken issue with his team's use of such evidence as news accounts to support his conclusion that goal-setting is widely over-prescribed

That's because the quest for a unified theory that would account for all the forces of nature has pushed current mathematics to its limits.

In still-fertile America it currently accounts for about 40% of total population growth, and in fast-ageing western Europe for about 90%.

What accounts for the significant decline in humanistic studies today

What accounts for the younger generation's political strength according to Professor Henry Flores?

What we have to do is make sure we know what these are and take into account all the possible variables

What accounts for the failure of some websites to remove photos immediately?

Crediting my account would be wonderful.

If every distraction took only 1 minute, that would account for 2.5 hours a day.

In an 1801 drawing from his book, General Zoology Amphibia, George Shaw, an English botanist and zoologist, credited Merian for describing a frog in the account of her South American expedition, and named the young tree frog after her in his portrayal of

Overall, stress-related health problems account for up to 90% of hospital visits, many of them preventable .

These results held true even taking into account that many of the women in the study were breastfeeding their babies.

While by no means perfect, it is considerably more comprehensive than average income, taking into account not only growth in consumption per person but also changes in working time, life expectancy, and inequality.

A politician may read an account of his latest successful public meeting, not for its delayed reward, but very much as his wife reads an account of a party.

According to the world bank, China accounts for about 30 percent of total global fertilizer consumption.

Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

At the start of this year, foreigners living in italy amounted to 4.56 million of a total population of 60.6 million, or 7.5 percent, with immigrants’ children accounting for an ever larger percentage of births in italy.

Europe has only around 200 languages; the Americas about 1000; Africa 2400; and asia and the pacific perhaps 3200, of which papua new guinea alone accounts for well over 800.

He believes design must take into account the sensory side of our nature—sight, smell, touch and taste.

In modern man, the brain accounts for about 2-3%of total body weight but it consumes 25% of the body's energy when the body is at rest.

It had been known for a long time that Yellowstone was volcanic in nature — that's what accounted for all its hot springs and other steamy features.

It is said that body language accounts for 55 percent of a first impression while what you say just 7 percent.

Researchers in spain and england recently found that the worms of the greater wax moth can break down polyethylene, which accounts for 40% of plastics.

The fifty-two week money challenge is simple and if it is maintained, it will result in 1378 dollars in your savings account each year.

The professor warned the students that on no account should they use mobile phones in his class.

They now need to take into account the extent of firms' data assets when assessing the impact of deals.

While chronologica tells the stories of famous people in history such as thomas edison and Alexander the great, this book also gives an account of the lives of lesser-known individuals including the explorer Mungo Park and sculptor Gutzon Borglum.

Written accounts from the 18th and 19th centuries described flocks so large that they the sky for hours.

The need of training is too evident; the pressure to accomplish a change in their attitude and habits is too urgent to leave these consequences wholly out of account.

A tailor named John Dane, who emigrated in the late 1630s, left an account of his reasons for leaving England that is filled with signs.

It is painful to read these roundabout accounts today.

It was banks that were on the wrong planet, with accounts that vastly overvalued assets.

European ministers instantly demanded that the International Accounting Standards Board ( ' , IASB) do likewise.

Behind the scenes, they have been taking aim at someone else: the accounting standard-setters.

After a bruising encounter with Congress, America’s Financial Accounting Standards Board ( ' , FASB) rushed through rule changes.

By all accounts he was a freethinking person, and a courageous one, and I find courage an essential quality for the understanding, let alone the performance, of his works.

Many, like the Fundamental Physics Prize, are funded from the telephone-number-sized bank accounts of Internet entrepreneurs.

Their analysis ruled out the possibility that it was firms’ political influence, rather than their CSR stand, that accounted for the leniency: Companies that contributed more to political campaigns did not receive lower fines.

There's no change to collective bargaining at the USPS, a major omission considering that personnel accounts for 80 percent of the agency's costs.

6 million patients In 2015 on the basis of a vague agreement which took far too little account of the patients' rights and their expectations of privacy.

Conversely, if homework matters, it should account for a significant portion of the grade.

Many Americans regard the jury system as a concrete expression of crucial democratic values, including the principles that all citizens who meet minimal qualifications of age and literacy are equally competent to serve on juries; that jurors should be sel

The move to renewables is picking up momentum around the world: They now account for more than half of new power sources going on line.

Third, the use of paper checks gives consumers several days of "float" — it takes several days before a check is cashed and funds are withdrawn from the issuer's account, which means that the writer of the check can earn interest on the funds in the meant

This is the famed citation index, that is to say the number of times a paper has been quoted elsewhere in the scientific literature, the assumption being that an important paper will be cited more often than one of small account.

While the conversation around our environment and our responsibility toward it remains centered on shopping hags and straws, we're ignoring the balance of power that implies that as "consumers" we must shop sustainably, rather than as "citizens" hole our

词组搭配

account for

To constitute the governing or primary factor

导致，引起：构成决定性的或主要的因素

Bad weather accounted for the long delay.
长期的延缓是因为坏天气

To provide an explanation or justification

做出解释，提出理由

The suspect couldn't account for his time that night.
嫌疑犯不能说明那天晚上他的时间安排

by (或 from) all accounts

according to what one has heard or read

根据各种流传的说法

by all accounts he is a pretty nice guy.
据说他是个非常好的人。

call (或 bring) someone to account

require someone to explain a mistake or poor performance

要求解释错误（或失误）

give a good (或 bad) account of oneself

make a favourable (or unfavourable) impression through one's performance

表现出色（或拙劣）

keep an account of

keep a record of

记录

leave something out of account

fail or decline to consider a factor

未能（或不予）考虑

money of account

denominations of money used in reckoning but not current as coins

记账货币

on someone's account

for a specified person's benefit

为（某人）着想

don't bother on my account.
不要为我多费神了。

on one's own account

with one's own money or assets, rather than for an employer or client

靠自己（的钱财）

he began trading on his own account.
他开始独立经商。

settle (或 square) accounts with

pay money owed to (someone)

与（某人）结清账目

take something into account (或 take account of)

consider a specified thing along with other factors before reaching a decision or taking action

（在决定或行动之前）将…考虑进去

there's no accounting for tastes (或 taste)

(proverb)it's impossible to explain why different people like different things, especially those things which the speaker considers unappealing

(谚)萝卜青菜，各有所爱

turn something to good account

turn something to one's advantage

利用；善用

take account of

考虑到

实用场景例句

I don't have a bank account.: 我没有银行账户。

The defendant asked for 21 similar offences to be taken into account...: 被告要求考虑到类似的21起违法行为的情况。

Urban planners in practice have to take account of many interest groups in society.: 城市规划人员在实际工作中必须把社会各利益集团都考虑在内。

Ministers should be called to account for their actions.: 部长们应该对他们的行为作出解释。

...until the great day came when the Germans could finally settle accounts with the British...: 直到德国人最终能和英国人清算旧账的重大日子的来临

Their sleep is regularly disturbed by the sound of gunfire as criminal gangs settle their nightly accounts.: 他们经常被黑帮每晚火拼的枪声所吵醒。

Mollie told me what she'd done and I was really scared on her account.: 莫莉告诉我她的所作所为，我真是替她感到后怕。

Don't leave on my account.: 别因为我就走了。

On no account should the mixture boil.: 切勿让这种混合物沸腾。

Wine is radioactive but few people stop drinking it on that account.: 酒是有放射性的，可是很少有人因此而戒酒。

He was by his own account an ambitious workaholic.: 据他自己所言，他是个雄心勃勃的工作狂。

She had plans to set up in business on her own account.: 她计划自己创业。

I told him if he withdrew it was on his own account.: 我告诉他，如果他退出，责任自负。

He bought two bottles of vodka on account.: 他挂账买了两瓶伏特加酒。

The President declined to deliver the speech himself, on account of a sore throat...: 总统因嗓子不适而婉拒了亲自讲话。

A newly-married couple, he thought, on account of their walking so close together.: 看俩人走路时挨得这么近，他觉得他们是新婚夫妇。

These obscure groups were of little account in national politics.: 这些名不见经传的团体在国内政界无足轻重。

The opening day of the battle was, nevertheless, accounted a success.: 不过，开战的首日仍被认为是成功的。

...homosexuals, whose sexual behaviour is still accounted sinful by the church.: 其性行为仍然被教会认为是罪孽深重的同性恋者

He is, by all accounts, a superb teacher.: 他是位有口皆碑的好老师。

The team fought hard and gave a good account of themselves.: 这支队伍奋力拼搏，表现出色。

Science, on Weber's account, is an essentially value-free activity.: 按照韦伯的说法，科学在本质上是一种价值无涉的活动。

I had two accounts with Natwest, a savings account and a current account.: 我在国民威斯敏斯特银行有两个账户，一个储蓄账户和一个活期存款账户。

Biggart Donald, the Glasgow-based marketing agency, has won two Edinburgh accounts.: 比加特·唐纳德，这家驻格拉斯哥的营销代理公司已赢得了两个爱丁堡的客户。

He kept detailed accounts.: 他记明细账。

...an account book.: 账本

He gave a detailed account of what happened on the fateful night...: 他详细描述了那个灾难性夜晚所发生的事。

According to police accounts, Mr and Mrs Hunt were found dead on the floor of their kitchen.: 据警方称，亨特夫妇被发现死在家里厨房的地板上。

This basic utilitarian model gives a relatively unsophisticated account of human behaviour...: 这个实用的基础模型较为简略地解释了人类的行为。

Some banks make it difficult to open an account...: 一些银行把开户弄得很麻烦。