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“Account”是一个既可以做名词也可以做动词的单词。

  • 作为名词时,可以表示“账户,帐目”,例如:bank account (银行账户),也可以表示“描述,说明”,例如:She gave a detailed account of the incident. (她详细描述了这个事件。)
  • 作为动词时,表示”解释”,例如:You’ll need to account for the missing money. (你需要解释钱去哪了。)
  1. I forgot my password and can’t access my account. (我忘记了密码,无法进入我的账户。)
  2. Please give me a full account of what happened. (请给我完整的描述发生了什么。)
  3. The manager was held to account for the loss. (管理者被追究了关于损失的责任。)

“Account”来源于拉丁语 “computare”,意思是“计算”,事实上,“account”本身没有直接的词根,但是可以找到一些相关的单词如:accountant(会计),accountable(有责任的)。

“Account”没有前缀和后缀,它是一个完整的词。

在古代,人们开始进行贸易时就开始使用“account”这个词。这个词最早的使用是来记录交易和存储金钱的。现在”account”已经涵盖了许多不同的含义,从金融到物流都有其应用。

“Account”的动词现在分词形式是”accounting”,过去式和过去分词形式是 “accounted”。名词复数形式是”accounts”。

可以通过生活中经常接触到的单词-比如银行账户(bank account),电子邮件账户(email account)等来回忆起”account”的含义和用法。

Peter loves his job as an accountant. He is great at keeping accounts and always makes sure everything adds up. One day, his boss asked him to account for some missing funds. Peter, shocked, started his investigation. He had to get to the bottom of this. He eventually found out a colleague was responsible and held him to account. (彼得非常喜欢他的会计工作。他擅长保持帐目清晰,并始终确保一切都加起来。一天,他的老板要他解释一些失踪的资金。这让彼得感到震惊,他开始进行调查。他必须查到底。最后,他发现是一个同事负责,并让他对此负责。)