accounting是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 会计学，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Yet we feel that we ought to limit ourselves to the simple record of facts, without much attempt at explanation, for a very patent reason: because we ourselves have the greatest possible difficulty in accounting for the facts to be record-ed.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That had the advantage of accounting for everything straight away.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《神秘岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was agreed that there was no other way of accounting for the rescue of Cyrus Harding, and that Top deserved all the honor of the affair.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The truth is and, as there is no accounting for tastes, even a taste so strange as this may be recorded without being looked upon as a wilful and malicious invention the truth is that neither Mrs Wackles nor her eldest daughter had at any time greatly favoured the pretensions of Mr Swiveller, being accustomed to make slight mention of him as 'a gay young man' and to sigh and shake their heads ominously whenever his name was mentioned.
-- Still casting about for some plausible means of accounting for their non-appearance, and of persuading himself that they must soon return, he bent his steps towards home, intending to finish the task which the sudden recollection of his contract had interrupted, and then to sally forth once more to seek his fortune for the day.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "There's no accounting for tastes and I've always heard the Irish were partial to pigs kept them under their beds,in fact.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I had cut my knuckles against the pale young gentleman's teeth, and I twisted my imagination into a thousand tangles, as I devised incredible ways of accounting for that damnatory circumstance when I should be haled before the Judges.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I suppose,' observed Mr Dorrit, glancing from Mrs Clennam to Mr Flintwinch, and from Mr Flintwinch to Mrs Clennam, 'you have no way of accounting to yourself for this mystery?'
-- 'It is an easy way of accounting for anything,' said I.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It took off the extreme edge of their wonder; and so what with all this and Stubb's confident way of accounting for their appearance, they were for the time freed from superstitious surmisings; though the affair still left abundant room for all manner of wild conjectures as to dark Ahab's precise agency in the matter from the beginning.
在简·奥斯汀的《傲慢与偏见》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Lady Catherine observed, after dinner, that Miss Bennet seemed out of spirits, and immediately accounting for it by herself, by supposing that she did not like to go home again so soon, she added: 'But if that is the case, you must write to your mother and beg that you may stay a little longer.
-- There I have saved you the trouble of accounting for it; and really, all things considered, I begin to think it perfectly reasonable.
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