account

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
美 /əˈkaʊnt/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A registry of pecuniary transactions; a written or printed statement of business dealings or debts and credits, and also of other things subjected to a reckoning or review.
    — The firm failed to file its accounts on time.
  2. A bank account.
    — The money was refunded to her account.
  3. A statement in general of reasons, causes, grounds, etc., explanatory of some event; a reason of an action to be done.
    — Becoming more aware of the progress that scientists have made on behavioral fronts can reduce the risk that other natural scientists will resort to mystical agential accounts when they exceed the limits of their own disciplinary training.
  4. A reason, grounds, consideration, motive; a person's sake.
    — Don't trouble yourself on my account.
  5. A record of events; a relation or narrative.
    — An account of a battle.
  6. An estimate or estimation; valuation; judgment.
    — To stand high in your account
  7. Importance; worth; value; esteem; judgement.
    — There is a peculiarity in Homers manner of apoſtrophizing Eumæus, and ſpeaking of him in the ſecond perſon; it is generally apply'd by that Poet only to men of account' and diſtinction, and by it the Poet, as it were, addreſſes them with reſpect; […]
  8. Authorization as a specific registered user in accessing a system.
    — Since the system outage, I've been unable to log in to my account.
  9. A reckoning; computation; calculation; enumeration; a record of some reckoning. archaic
    — It seems that this severity weakened his frame, for three years syne come Martinmas he was taken ill with a fever of the bowels, and after a week's sickness he went to his account, where I trust he is accepted.
  10. Profit; advantage. uncountable
    — The young man soon turned his woodworking skills to some account.
动词 v.
  1. To provide explanation.; To present an account of; to answer for, to justify. obsolete,transitive
  2. To provide explanation.; To give an account of financial transactions, money received etc. archaic,intransitive
  3. To provide explanation.; To estimate, consider (something to be as described). transitive
    — The Pagan Hercules, why was he accounted a hero?
  4. To provide explanation.; To consider that. intransitive
    — Accounting that God was able to raise him up, even from the dead; from whence also he received him in a figure.
  5. To provide explanation.; To give a satisfactory evaluation for financial transactions, money received etc. intransitive
    — An officer must account with or to the treasurer for money received.
  6. To provide explanation.; To give a satisfactory evaluation for (one's actions, behaviour etc.); to answer for. intransitive
    — We must account for the use of our opportunities.
  7. To provide explanation.; To give a satisfactory reason for; to explain. intransitive
    — Idleness accounts for poverty.
  8. To provide explanation.; To establish the location for someone. intransitive
    — After the crash, not all passengers were accounted for.
  9. To provide explanation.; To cause the death, capture, or destruction of someone or something (+ for). intransitive
    — Desperately bold at last, the persecuted animals bolted above-ground—the terrier accounted for one, the keeper for another; Rawdon, from flurry and excitement, missed his rat, but on the other hand he half-murdered a ferret.
  10. To count.; To calculate, work out (especially with periods of time). archaic,transitive
    — neither the motion of the Moon, whereby moneths are computed; nor of the Sun, whereby years are accounted, consisteth of whole numbers, but admits of fractions, and broken parts, as we have already declared concerning the Moon.
  11. To count.; To count (up), enumerate. obsolete
  12. To count.; To recount, relate (a narrative etc.). obsolete
    — Long worke it were / Here to account the endlesse progeny / Of all the weeds that bud and blossome there [...].
  13. Used in phrasal verbs: account for, account of, account to.

词形变化

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词汇关系

衍生词
account for account of account to misaccount reaccount unaccounted
相关词
accountable accountant

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin com-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Old French conter
Old French aconter
Anglo-Norman acuntebor.
Middle English acounte
English account
From Middle English acounte, from Anglo-Norman acunte (“account”), from Old French aconte, from aconter (“to reckon”), from Latin computō (“to sum up”).
词源 2
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd
Proto-Italic *ad
Proto-Italic *ad-
Latin ad-
Old French a-
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin com-
Latin putus
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin putō
Latin computō
Old French conter
Old French aconterder.
English account
From Old French acounter, accomptere et al., from a- + conter (“to count”)). Compare count.
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