account for

verb

1. give reasons for

e.g. Can you account for all these absences?

2. be the reason or explanation for

e.g. The recession accounts for the slow retail business

1. （数量或比例上）占
If a particular thing accounts for a part or proportion of something, that part or proportion consists of that thing, or is used or produced by it.

e.g. Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.
计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。

2. 导致；解释
If something accounts for a particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it.

e.g. 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. 为…提出理由;对…作出说明
If you can account for something, you can explain it or give the necessary information about it.

e.g. 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？
e.g. 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. 对（行动、政策等）负有责任
If someone has to account for an action or policy, they are responsible for it, and may be required to explain it to other people or be punished if it fails.

e.g. 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. 将（钱款）列入预算
If a sum of money is accounted for in a budget, it has been included in that budget for a particular purpose.

account for的反义词

e.g. 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. 杀死；消灭；打败
If you account for an enemy or opponent, you kill, destroy, or beat them.

e.g. 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。
e.g. 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。

1. account for的近义词

1. 解释,说明：勾勒这一新的电子采购系统的委员会面临许多麻烦的问题:如何开发一个将解释说明(account for)各种各样的公共机构的系统?如何获得开发这一系统的资源?如何为作为技术管理解决方案的项目建立并维护强有力的政治支持,不导致政治报复?

2. 说明(原因等)：according to / / 根据 | account for / / 说明(原因等) | accustomed to / / 习惯于