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。
在荷马的《伊利亚特》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Phoebus Apollo came up to Hector and said, 'Hector, on no account must you challenge Achilles to single combat; keep a lookout for him while you are under cover of the others and away from the thick of the fight, otherwise he will either hit you with a spear or cut you down at close quarters.'
-- You have no more chance, and Pallas Minerva will forthwith vanquish you by my spear: you shall now pay me in full for the grief you have caused me on account of my comrades whom you have killed in battle.'
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the moment when the Invisible Man screamed with rage and Mr. Bunting made his memorable flight up the village, it became impossible to give a consecutive account of affairs in Iping.
-- He took up his burden again, and returned upstairs, looking about him and trying to account for the blood-spot.
-- He caught it up, turned it over, and read the account of a "Strange Story from Iping" that the mariner at Port Stowe had spelt over so painfully to Mr. Marvel.
-- said Kemp, reading eagerly an incredulous account of the events in Iping, of the previous afternoon, that have already been described.
-- That had much to say and little to tell, beyond the confirmation of the evening before, and a very badly written account of another remarkable tale from Port Burdock.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He gave such a strange account of himself that he was supposed de-mented.
-- Yet surely, and especially to another scientific man, there was nothing so horrible in vivisection as to account for this secrecy; and by some odd leap in my thoughts the pointed ears and luminous eyes of Montgomery's attendant came back again before me with the sharpest definition.
-- Victor Hugo gives an account of them in 'L'Homme qui Rit.
-- He repeated that the thing was so, and continued his account of his work.
-- 'I rested from work for some days after this, and was in a mind to write an account of the whole affair to wake up English physiology.
在拉迪亚德·吉卜林的《丛林故事》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'And I know that this is true,' he said, 'because Purun Dass always limped from the blow that he got in a riot when his account books were burned, and the tiger that I speak of he limps, too, for the tracks of his pads are unequal.'
-- 'I will settle my account with you presently.
-- It was a very lively march on account of the new elephants, who gave trouble at every ford, and needed coaxing or beating every other minute.
-- But I may as well give you something on account now.'
在詹姆斯·费尼莫尔·库柏的《最后的摩根战士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The warriors appeared to be on the most friendly terms, and seemingly conversed much together; yet, according to the account of the in-terpreter, each was absolutely ignorant of what the other said.
-- Like nations of higher pretensions, the American Indian gives a very different account of his own tribe or race from that which is given by other people.
-- He is much addicted to overestimating his own perfections, and to undervaluing those of his rival or his enemy; a trait which may possibly be thought corroborative of the Mosaic account of the cre-ation.
-- It is a circumstance worthy of observation, that while all America rang with his well-merited reputation, his name does not occur in any European account of the battle; at least the author has searched for it without success.
-- Horses of this race were, and are still, in much request as saddle horses, on account of their hardi-ness and the ease of their movements.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed.
-- It is true, an old farmer, who had been down to New York on a visit several years after, and from whom this account of the ghostly adventure was received, brought home the intelligence that Ichabod Crane was still alive; that he had left the neighborhood partly through fear of the goblin and Hans Van Ripper, and partly in mortification at having been suddenly dismissed by the heiress; that he had changed his quarters to a distant part of the country; had kept school and studied law at the same time; had been admitted to the bar; turned politician; electioneered; written for the news-papers; and finally had been made a justice of the ten pound court.
在威廉·萨默塞特·毛姆的《月亮和六便士》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It is obvious that there was much in the commonly received account of Strickland's life to embarrass a respectable family.
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