accountant（account）

1、1. （数量或比例上）占 Computers account for 5% of the country’scommercial electricity consumption.计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。

2、2. 导致；解释 Now, the gene they discovered today doesn’t account for all those cases.不过，他们现在发现的基因无法解释所有的病例。

3、3. 为…提出理由;对…作出说明 How do you account for the company’s alarmingly high staff turnover?你怎么解释这家公司高得令人忧虑的人员流动率？He said only 200 of the train’s 600 passengers had been accounted for.他说火车上的600名乘客中仅有200名乘客的信息得已查明。

4、4. 对（行动、政策等）负有责任 The President and the President alone must account for his government’s reforms.总统必须为他的政府改革负责，而且是负全责。

5、5. 将（钱款）列入预算 The really heavy redundancy costs have been accounted for.非常庞大的裁员开支已被列入预算。

6、6. 杀死；消灭；打败 In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft.5月的头10天里我们中队至少报销了7架敌机。

7、In the final they accounted for Brentford by three goals to two.决赛时他们以3比2击败了布伦特福德队。