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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- I gave him pretty nearly the same account of my former pursuits as I had given to his fellow professor.
-- Chemistry is that branch of natural phi-losophy in which the greatest improvements have been and 47may be made; it is on that account that I have made it my peculiar study; but at the same time, I have not neglected the other branches of science.
-- I attended the lec-tures and cultivated the acquaintance of the men of science of the university, and I found even in M. Krempe a great deal of sound sense and real information, combined, it is true, with a repulsive physiognomy and manners, but not on that account the less valuable.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- For years, the O'Haras had been in badodor with the English constabulary on account of suspected activities against the government, and Gerald was not thefirst O'Hara to take his foot in his hand and quit Ireland between dawn and morning.
-- It was when UncleHenry was giving her an account of her property that he broached the matter of her permanent residence in Atlanta.
-- She had nursed a Charleston boy in the hospital and when he died had clipped a lock of his hair and sent it tohis mother, along with the scant contents of his pockets and a comforting account of his last hours which made nomention of the torment in which he died.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Even when I was taken to have a new suit of clothes, the tailor had orders to make them like a kind of Reformatory, and on no account to let me have the free use of my limbs.
-- It is fair to remark that there was no prohibition against any pupil's entertaining himself with a slate or even with the ink (when there was any), but that it was not easy to pursue that branch of study in the winter season, on account of the little general shop in which the classes were holden--and which was also Mr. Wopsle's great-aunt's sitting-room and bedchamber--being but faintly illuminated through the agency of one low-spirited dip-candle and no snuffers.
-- Having his hand in, Mr. Wopsle finished off with a most terrifically snarling passage from Richard the Third, and seemed to think he had done quite enough to account for it when he added, "--as the poet says."
-- "I have gone off into that state, hours and hours, on account of Matthew's strange and inexplicable conduct, and nobody has thanked me."
-- Orlick, as if he had been of no more account than the pale young gentleman, was very soon among the coal-dust, and in no hurry to come out of it.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- So he set out once more on his journey, sighing, and in great despair, when on a sudden his friend the fox met him, and said, 'You see now what has happened on account of your not listening to my counsel.
-- They went and announced him to the 102 Grimms' Fairy Talesking, and gave it as their opinion that if war should break out, this would be a weighty and useful man who ought on no account to be allowed to depart.
-- The fact was, he could not re-fuse the request, on account of the dwarf's third gift.
-- The next morning he came to the eldest and took him to a marble table, where there were three tablets, contain-ing an account of the means by which the castle might be disenchanted.
-- The man as-sured her again that he would on no account touch a thing to eat or drink.
在乔纳森•斯威夫特的《格列夫游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- This volume would have been at least twice as large, if I had not made bold to strike out innumerable passages re-lating to the winds and tides, as well as to the variations and bearings in the several voyages, together with the min-ute descriptions of the management of the ship in storms, in the style of sailors; likewise the account of longitudes and latitudes; wherein I have reason to apprehend, that Mr. Gulliver may be a little dissatisfied.
-- I hope you will be ready to own publicly, whenever you shall be called to it, that by your great and frequent urgency you prevailed on me to publish a very loose and uncorrect account of my travels, with directions to hire some young gentleman of either university to put them in order, and correct the style, as my cousin Dampier did, by my advice, in his book called 'A Voyage round the world.'
-- Likewise in the account of the academy of projectors, and several pas-sages of my discourse to my master Houyhnhnm, you have either omitted some material circumstances, or minced or changed them in such a manner, that I do hardly know my own work.
-- And is there less probability in my account of the Houyhnhnms or Yahoos, when it is manifest as to the latter, there are so many thousands even in this country, who only differ from their brother brutes in Houyhnhnmland, be-cause they use a sort of jabber, and do not go naked?
-- 10 Gulliver's TravelsChapter I The author gives some account of himself and family.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- In considering this question, it is not unimportant to take into account the statistics of marriage, so far as they have yet been obtained, in England and Wales.
-- 'Oh, dear no, sir, I could on no account think of that!'
-- 'If you put the question whether your ridiculous and improbable account was true or not, I am bound to say it's confirmed.'
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