1·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。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Cars account for half the oil consumed in the U.S.
汽车耗油量占美国石油消耗量的一半。
3·Car thefts account for a quarter of all recorded crime.
汽车盗窃占所有记录在案的犯罪的四分之一。
4·It should at least account for 50% of the total investment.
它至少占了投资总额的50%。
5·They actually account for almost all of the meteorite material that falls to earth.
它们实际上在落在地球上的陨石物质中占了接近总数。
1·Environmental conditions mattered, but they were rarely, if ever, sufficient to account for sociocultural persistence and change.
环境条件很重要，但是，即使有，也不能足以说明社会文化的持久性和变化。
2·Those who object to this advice typically see no reason to define or account for system behavior.
那些反对这个建议的人一般都没有看到定义或者说明系统行为的原因。
3·Maybe, like many teams, you have reached the point of saturation where you now have too many tests to account for.
也许，像许多团队一样，您已经达到饱和点，现在您有太多的测试，以至于不能说明。
4·This is the best way to account for basic issues, such as forgetting to make one of the attributes stored in the session serializable, which could cause larger issues in a production environment.
这是说明基本问题(如忘记在可序列化的会话中存储某个属性)的最好方法，在未得到处理的情况下，此类问题可能在生产环境中导致较大的问题。
5·In that case, you need to account for the possibility when you ask for it's children.
在那种情况下，当您需要它的子节点时要说明这种可能性。
1·A number of factors might contribute to (lead to) (account for) the phenomenon (problem).
许多因素可能有助于(导致)(解释)现象(问题)。
1·You must account for your absence to the manager.
你必须向经理交待你缺席的原因。