大学英语四级常用短语 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？



How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover?

你怎么解释这家公司高得惊人的人员流动率？



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%。



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。



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。



Currently, disposables account for about 80% to 85% of the $3 billion-plus annual diaper market.

目前，一次性尿布占年销售额30多亿美元的尿布市场的80%至85%左右。



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。



How do I account for it?

我怎么解释呢？



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

少数民族占人口的百分之六。



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。



They take up a teeny bit, but when we're thinking about the set up of the atom, we don't have to account for them as using up a lot of the mass.

它们占据了非常小的一部分，但当我们考虑原子的构造的时候，不用考虑它们会占用很多的质量。



He's often hoarse at the end of the day because he performs his dialogue out loud as he writes it. (This may account for its strikingly naturalistic quality.)

在一天结束的时候，他通常声音嘶哑，因为他在写作对话的时候总是大声地把对话喊出来。（这也许可以解释它引人注目的自然主义性质。）