account for

基本解释

How do I account for it?
我怎么向他解释？
I have not dealt with the money so far, but I am about to save it in a separate account for my child.
我没有怎样用这笔钱，但是我会为我的孩子开一个独立的账户，然后钱存到里面。
It is the business of the scientist to accumulate knowledge about the universe and all that is in it, and to find, if he is able, common factors which underlie and account for the facts that he knows.
科学家要做的事就是积累有关宇宙和宇宙中的一切事物的知识, 而且要是可能的话, 找出那些既能构成科学家所知事实的基础, 又能解释这些事实的共同因素。

Pneumonia and diarrhea account for over one third of all deaths among children under the age of five.
We have to account for that in some way because we know that they don't have identical average valence electron energies.
我们需要从一些方面来解释一下,因为我们都知道,他们没有相同的,平均价电子能。
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What about Mill's attempt to account for the especially weighty character of individual rights and justice in chapter five of Utilitarianism.
那么穆勒在《功利主义》,第五章中提到的,个人权利和公正重要性的解释，又是否成立呢。
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This purchase will account for 39.5% of the outstanding shares of the brokerage following the issuance.
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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.
If something accounts for a particular fact or situation, it causes or explains it.
If you can account for something, you can explain it or give the necessary information about it.
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.
If a sum of money is accounted for in a budget, it has been included in that budget for a particular purpose.