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。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For a whole month the town was full of gossip about this scandal, and it came to such a pass that Dounia and I dared not even go to church on account of the contemptuous looks, whispers, and even remarks made aloud about us.
-- Now to business!Here are thirty-five roubles; I take ten of them, and shall give you an account of them in an hour or two.
-- 'You shall have the account directly.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 165Liking Life on My Own Account No Better, I Form a GreatResolutionCHAPTER XIII .
-- However, we returned to those monsters, with fresh wakefulnesson my part, and we left their eggs in the sand for the sun to hatch;and we ran away from them, and baffled them by constantlyturning, which they were unable to do quickly, on account of theirunwieldy make; and we went into the water after them, as natives,and put sharp pieces of timber down their throats; and in short weran the whole crocodile gauntlet.
-- What else was it possible to infer from what you said, you unkindcreature, when you know as well as I do, that on his account onlylast quarter I wouldn't buy myself a new parasol, though that oldgreen one is frayed the whole way up, and the fringe is perfectlymangy?
-- But I reflected that Yarmouth might be situated at one of the poles;which would account for it.
-- 'It's dear,' he said, 'on account of the duty.
在简·奥斯汀的《爱玛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- As she sat one morning, looking forward to exactly such a close of the present day, a note was brought from Mrs. God-dard, requesting, in most respectful terms, to be allowed to bring Miss Smith with her; a most welcome request: for Miss Smith was a girl of seventeen, whom Emma knew very well by sight, and had long felt an interest in, on account of her beauty.
-- Mr. Elton was still talking, still engaged in some inter-esting detail; and Emma experienced some disappointment when she found that he was only giving his fair companion an account of the yesterday's party at his friend Cole's, and that she was come in herself for the Stilton cheese, the north Wiltshire, the butter, the cellery, the beet-root, and all the dessert.
-- said Mrs. John Knight-ley. 'It is so long since I have seen her, except now and then for a moment accidentally in town!What happiness it must be to her good old grandmother and excellent aunt, when she comes to visit them!I always regret excessively on dear Emma's account that she cannot be more at Highbury; but now their daughter is married, I suppose Colonel and Mrs. Campbell will not be able to part with her at all.
-- Mr. Elton was all obligation and cheerfulness; he was so very cheerful in his civilities indeed, that she began to think he must have received a different account of Har-riet from what had reached her.
-- Elton, this is the most extraordinary conduct!and I can account for it only in one way; you are not yourself, or you could not speak either to me, or of Harriet, in such a manner.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It may be mentioned that Oak's fob being difficult of access, by reason of its somewhat high situation in the waistband of his trousers (which also lay at a remote height under his waistcoat), the watch was as a necessity pulled out by throwing the body to one side, compressing the mouth and face to a mere mass of ruddy flesh on account of the exertion required, and drawing up the watch by its chain, like a bucket from a well.
-- "I heard a noise I could not account for when we were coming up the hill."
-- All earnestly expressed by their features that their minds did not wander to Holland for a moment on account of this statement, but were deploring the difference which gave rise to the figure; and Mark Clark cried "Hear, hear; just what I should ha' said."
-- It was a hard hit, but Bathsheba had unmistakably lost her temper, and on that account Gabriel had never in his life kept his own better.
-- On this account he might, in certain lights, have been regarded as one of the most fortunate of his order.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This position is sufficient to account for the silence prevalent in the streets shut in between the dome of the Pantheon and the dome of the Val-de-Grace, two conspicuous public buildings which give a yellowish tone to the landscape and darken the whole district that lies beneath the shadow of their leaden-hued cupolas.
-- Couture went on, without heeding the worthy vermicelli maker's exclamation; "father and son bowed to me, and asked me to excuse them on account of urgent business!
-- Young men at his age take no account of obstacles nor of dangers; they see success in every direction; imagination has free play, and turns their lives into a romance; they are saddened or discouraged by the collapse of one of the visionary schemes that have no existence save in their heated fancy.
-- "But I owe no account of myself to any one, especially as I do not try to find out what other people do of a night."
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Besides, in draw-ing the picture of my early days, I also record those events which led, by insensible steps, to my after tale of misery, for when I would account to myself for the birth of that pas-sion which afterward ruled my destiny I find it arise, like a mountain river, from ignoble and almost forgotten sources; but, swelling as it proceeded, it became the torrent which, in its course, has swept away all my hopes and joys.
-- In rather a too philosophical and connected a strain, perhaps, I have given an account of the conclusions I had come to concerning them in my early years.
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