account是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 账目; 账户; 计算; vt. /vi. 说明，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Her account was stated on the wall in the same manner.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'Our family; our honourable family, whose honour is of so much account to both of us, in such different ways.
-- 'You don't get on with your account of your matrimonial 197intentions,' answered Carton, with a careless air; 'I wish you would keep to that.
-- I tell you, I regret it on account of others, but I am satis-fied on my own account.
-- Can I turn it to no good account for yourself, Mr.
-- The precaution that had been taken to account for his silence, Mr. Lorry had 290 A tale of two citiespreviously explained to him, and he had written to Lucie in accordance with it, and she had no suspicions.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And he smiled most graciously, and looked closely at the empty looms; for on no account would he say that he could not see what two of the officers of his court had praised so much.
-- By the magic power of the shoes he was carried back to the times of King Hans; on which account his foot very naturally sank in the mud and puddles of the street, there having been in those days no pavement in Copenhagen.
-- 'I like reading all useful works; but I do not on that account despise the modern ones; 'tis only the unfor-tunate 'Tales of Every-day Life' that I cannot bear we have enough and more than enough such in reality.'
-- In reality, such remembrances are rather unpleasant: every sin, every evil thought, may, like a clock with alarm or chimes, be repeated at pleasure; then the question is if we can trust ourselves to give an account of every unbecoming word in our heart and on our lips.
-- Among the latter there may be far more poetical natures than many an ac-knowledged poet, when examined more closely, could boast of; the difference only is, that the poet possesses a better mental memory, on which account he is able to retain the 50 Andersen's Fairy Talesfeeling and the thought till they can be embodied by means of words; a faculty which the others do not possess.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And the idea that he might be let on by his interests, that he might seek a reconciliation with his wife on account of the sale of the forest--that idea hurt him.
-- Meanwhile there took place below, in the prince's little library, one of the scenes so often repeated between the parents on account of their favorite daughter.
-- He begged pardon, and was getting into the carriage, but felt he must glance at her once more; not that she was very beautiful, not on account of the elegance and modest grace which were apparent in her whole figure, but because in the expression of her charming face, as she passed close by him, there was something peculiarly caressing and soft.
-- But I know it's all on account of the other."
-- In addition to his farming, which called for special attention in spring, and in addition to reading, Levin had begun that winter a work on agriculture, the plan of which turned on taking into account the character of the laborer on the land as one of the unalterable data of the question, like the climate and the soil, and consequently deducing all the principles of scientific culture, not simply from the data of soil and climate, but from the data of soil, climate, and a certain unalterable character of the laborer.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His cheques were regularly paid at sight from his account current, which was always flush.
-- He lived alone, and, so to speak, outside of every social relation; and as he knew that in this world account must be taken of friction, and that friction retards, he never rubbed against anybody.
-- The package of notes not being found when five o'clock sounded from the ponderous clock in the "drawing office," the amount was passed to the account of profit and loss.
-- "But that doesn't take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on."
-- "She was bespoken yesterday at Port Said, and the rest of the way is of no account to such a craft.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The Onward March Magazine, which specialized in biographies of Men Who Have Made Good, had an account of Pickerbaugh among its sketches of the pastor who built his own, beautiful Neo- Gothic church out of tin cans, the lady who had in seven years kept 2,698 factory-girls from leading lives of shame, and the Oregon cobbler who had taught himself to read Sanskrit, Finnish, and Esperanto.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- And now may I ven-ture to address you, honoured sir, on my own account with a private question.
-- You can imagine all she went through!To leave her situation at once was impos-sible not only on account of the money debt, but also to spare the feelings of Marfa Petrovna, whose suspicions would have been aroused: and then Dounia would have been the cause of a rupture in the family.
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