- a report or description of an event or experience报道, 记述：
a detailed account of what has been achieved.
对取得的成就的详细描述。
- an interpretation or rendering of a piece of music演奏（音乐）：
a lively account of Offenbach's score.
对奥芬巴赫乐曲的生动演奏。
- a record or statement of financial expenditure and receipts relating to a particular period or purpose账; 账目：
the barman was doing his accounts
酒吧男招待在记账
he submitted a quarterly account.
他递交了一份季度账目。
Accounts
the department of a company that deals with such records会计科。
- chiefly Brit. a bill taking the form of such a record〈主英〉账单：
there's no money to pay the tradesmen's accounts this month.
这个月没有钱支付零售商的账单。
- an arrangement by which a body holds funds on behalf of a client or supplies goods or services to them on credit账户; 赊购账：
a bank account
银行账户
charge it to my account
记在我的账上
I began buying things on account.
我开始赊购物品。
- a client having such an arrangement with a supplier（记账交易）客户：
selling bibles to established accounts in the North.
将《圣经》卖给北方的记账交易老客户。
- a contract to do work periodically for a client（定期结付的）交易合同：
another agency were awarded the account.
又一家代理商得到了合约。
- Stock Exchange, Brit. a fixed period on a stock exchange, at the end of which payment must be made for stock that has been bought【股票】〈英〉账期交易期。
- mass noun importance重要性：
money was of no account to her.
金钱对她无关紧要。
- with obj. and complement consider or regard in a specified way认为, 看作：
her visit could not be accounted a success
她的访问算不上成功
he accounted himself the unluckiest man alive.
他认为自己是世上最倒霉的人。
- no obj. archaic give or receive an account for money received〈古〉报账：
after 1292 he accounted to the Westminster exchequer.
1292年以后他就向威斯敏斯特税务署报账。
by（或from）all accounts
- according to what one has heard or read根据各种流传的说法：
by all accounts he is a pretty nice guy.
据说他是个非常好的人。
call （或bring） someone to account
- require someone to explain a mistake or poor performance要求解释错误（或失误）。
give a good （或bad） account of oneself
- make a favourable (or unfavourable) impression through one's performance表现出色（或拙劣）。
keep an account of
- keep a record of记录。
leave something out of account
- fail or decline to consider a factor未能（或不予）考虑。
money of account
- denominations of money used in reckoning but not current as coins记账货币。
on someone's account
- for a specified person's benefit为（某人）着想：
don't bother on my account.
不要为我多费神了。
on account of
- because of因为, 由于。
on no account
- under no circumstances决不, 绝对不：
on no account let anyone know we're interested.
切莫让任何人知道我们感兴趣。
on one's own account
- with one's own money or assets, rather than for an employer or client靠自己（的钱财）：
he began trading on his own account.
他开始独立经商。
settle （或square） accounts with
- pay money owed to (someone)与（某人）结清账目。
- have revenge on向…报复, 跟…算账。
take something into account（或take account of）
- consider a specified thing along with other factors before reaching a decision or taking action（在决定或行动之前）将…考虑进去。
there's no accounting for tastes（或taste）
- proverb it's impossible to explain why different people like different things, especially those things which the speaker considers unappealing〈谚〉萝卜青菜, 各有所爱。
turn something to good account
- turn something to one's advantage利用; 善用。
account for
- give a satisfactory record of (something, typically money, that one is responsible for)（尤指对自己掌管的钱财）作出满意说明。
- provide or serve as a satisfactory explanation or reason for解释; 说明：
he was brought before the Board to account for his behaviour.
他被带到董事会上为他的行为作出解释。
- （一般作be accounted for）know the fate or whereabouts of (someone or something), especially after an accident（尤指事故发生后）查明…的命运（或下落）：
everyone was accounted for after the floods.
洪水之后所有人的下落都弄清楚了。
- succeed in killing, destroying, or defeating杀死, 消灭; 击败：
a mishit drive accounted for Jones, who had scored 32.
一个击球失误使得32分的琼斯落败。
- supply or make up (a specified amount or proportion)提供; 构成（数量, 比例）：
social security accounts for about a third of total public spending.
社会保险占公共开支总数的1/3.