Account

(noun.) the quality of taking advantage; 'she turned her writing skills to good account'.

(noun.) importance or value; 'a person of considerable account'; 'he predicted that although it is of small account now it will rapidly increase in importance'.

(noun.) a statement of recent transactions and the resulting balance; 'they send me an accounting every month'.

(noun.) 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'.

(verb.) furnish a justifying analysis or explanation; 'I can't account for the missing money'.

(verb.) keep an account of.

(verb.) be the sole or primary factor in the existence, acquisition, supply, or disposal of something; 'Passing grades account for half of the grades given in this exam'.

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• Not but what myself and Micawber have our hands pretty full, in general, on account of Mr. Wickfield's being hardly fit for any occupation, sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• On account of your approaching marriage with her? 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Well, sir, not of much account; but three of them have gone lame, sir. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Murder by a Madman, and the contents of the paper showed that Mr. Horace Harker had got his account into print after all. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• It is necessary that this drawing be made in four operations; the first and second are particularly interesting, on account of their depths, which are 5-1/2 and 9-3/16 inches, respectively. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• One was the fact that his father should, according to his account, cry 'Cooee! 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• Not on no account,' replied Sam. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• The same theory accounts for the esteem and regard we pay to men of extraordinary parts and abilities. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• This bank was more liberal than any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Legree had been casting up accounts and reading newspapers for some hours, while Cassy sat in the corner; sullenly looking into the fire. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• We have been made quite uneasy by the poor accounts we have had of her state, lately, I do assure you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This accounts for the phenomenon of the weaker of the two usually having a bundle of firewood thrust between its jaws in hot weather. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• On all accounts, I am sure. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Granting that to be the right reading of the riddle, it accounted, perhaps, for her flighty, self-conceited manner when she passed me in the hall. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• If I inflicted this shock upon him to-morrow morning, how could the immediate change in him be accounted for? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Now it is accounted for: the secret I discovered in your mother. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The housekeeper was now the only person who remained to be accounted for. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• The suddenness of the effect can be accounted for only by a cause which can operate suddenly, the accidental variations of the seasons. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• For this reason the present phaenomenon will be sufficiently accounted for, in explaining that passion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• It should be by day in outstep, ill-accounted places like this! 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But there is no accounting for these things. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• In the end, however, the complainant had nothing to show for all his struggle, as the master who made the accounting set the damages at one dollar! 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Polly and I were clinging to that hypothesis as the most lenient way of accounting for your eccentricity. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Besides accounting for old experimental results it suggests new lines of work and even enables one to predict the outcome of further investigation. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• Without accounting for transport. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• There--I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it; and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly reasonable. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• I know a gentleman who was fond of accounting for everything in a philosophical way. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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