| 单词 | account for |
| 释义 | account for (once / 190 pages) v WORD FAMILY account for: accounted for, accounting for, accounts for USAGE EXAMPLESHe and his colleagues counted daily growth markers in the teeth, calculating that tooth growth accounted for about 40 percent of incubation time. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) So it’s not surprising that they are being called to account for their real or imagined political messages. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) The offense was an unrecognizable mess against the Giants, amassing just 284 yards and failing to account for New York’s aggressive pass rush. Washington Post(Jan 01, 2017) 1v be the reason or explanation for The recession accounts for the slow retail business Hyper be have the quality of being; (copula, used with an adjective or a predicate noun) 2v give reasons for Can you account for all these absences? Hyper explain, explicate make plain and comprehensible |
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