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。
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《格兰特船长的女儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Without taking into account the fact that the inhabitants of the Pampas in Patagonia are as much Indians as the natives of the Punjaub."
-- Paganel was rather disconcerted at finding no way out to the other side of the chain, and laid his account with having to undergo great fatigue before the topmost peaks of the Andes could be reached, for their mean height is between eleven and twelve thousand six hundred feet.
-- They were obliged to reconnoiter carefully before making a single step, on account of the crevasses.
-- Now or never was the moment to explain, and Paganel, seizing the chance at once, began an account of their journey across the Pampas, and ended by inquiring the reason of the Indians having deserted the country.
-- Wilson gave an account of their investigations aloft, and all shared his opinion with respect to Thalcave.
在阿瑟·柯南·道尔的《巴斯克维尔的猎犬》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is a short account of the facts elicited at the death of Sir Charles Baskerville which occurred a few days before that date.'
-- It is time that you kept your promise and gave me a full account of what we are all driving at.'
-- I remembered the case well, for it was one in which Hol-mes had taken an interest on account of the peculiar ferocity of the crime and the wanton brutality which had marked all the actions of the assassin.
-- He rang the bell and asked Barrymore whether he could account for our experi-ence.
-- But surely such an explanation as that would be quite inadequate to account for the deep and subtle scheming which seemed to be weaving an invisible net round the young baronet.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'They could not teach me very much on account of my illness. '
-- Nina Alexandrovna is the wife of General Ardalion Alexandrovitch, my old brother in arms, with whom, I regret to say, on account of certain cir-cumstances, I am no longer acquainted.
-- Did he keep careful account of his minutes?'
-- Gania was partly glad of this; but still he had put it to her debit in the account to be settled after marriage.
-- The general had once belonged to a very select circle of society, but he had been turned out of it two or three years since on account of cer-tain weaknesses, in which he now indulged with all the less restraint; but his good manners remained with him to this day, in spite of all.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Chapter III ELL, I got a good going-over in the morning from old WMiss Watson on account of my clothes; but the widow she didn't scold, but only cleaned off the grease and clay, and looked so sorry that I thought I would behave awhile if I could.
-- Well, on every old broken-down tree you could see rabbits and snakes and such things; and when the island had been overflowed a day or two they got so tame, on account of being hungry, that you could paddle right up and put your hand on them if you wanted to; but not the snakes and turtles they would slide off in the water.
-- 'Why, nothing only it's on account of the feud.'
-- The first thing to see, looking away over the water, was a kind of dull line that was the woods on t'other side; you couldn't make nothing else out; then a pale place in the sky; then more paleness spreading around; then the river soft- ened up away off, and warn't black any more, but gray; you could see little dark spots drifting along ever so far away trading scows, and such things; and long black streaks rafts; sometimes you could hear a sweep screaking; or jumbled up voices, it was so still, and sounds come so far; and by and by you could see a streak on the water which you know by the look of the streak that there's a snag there in a swift current which breaks on it and makes that streak look that way; and you see the mist curl up off of the water, and the east reddens up, and the river, and you make out a log-cabin in the edge of the woods, away on the bank on t'other side of the river, being a woodyard, likely, and piled by them cheats so you can throw a dog through it anywheres; then the nice breeze springs up, and comes fanning you from over there, so cool and fresh and sweet to smell on account of the woods and the flowers; but sometimes not that way, because they've left dead fish laying around, gars and such, and they do get pretty rank; and next you've got the full day, and every- thing smiling in the sun, and the song-birds just going it!
在卡洛·科洛迪的《木偶奇遇记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- His name was Geppetto, but to the boys of the neighborhood he was Polendina,* on account of the wig he always wore which was just the color of yellow corn.
-- On account of the gold pieces in his mouth, Pinocchio could not say a word, so he tried with head and hands and body to show, as best he could, that he was only a poor Marionette without a penny in his pocket.
-- Unhappy boy!If he had only known then the dreadful things that were to happen to him on account of his disobedience!
-- One day I was about to become a boy, a real boy, but on account of my laziness and my hatred of books, and because I listened to bad companions, I ran away from home.
-- That sea monster was no other than the enormous Shark, which has often been mentioned in this story and which, on account of its cruelty, had been nicknamed "The Attila of the Sea" by both fish and fishermen.
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