account for

• The difference accounts for the existence of continents and ocean basins .
  这种差别解释了大陆和海洋盆地存在的原因。
• We must now see how quantum mechanics accounts for these results .
  现在我们就必须看一下量子力学是如何解释这些结果的。
• I find it enough to live, without spinning lies to account for life .
  我觉得用不着编造谎话去说明生活，就足以过日子了。
• No one could account for the fact that one of the boxes was extremely heavy .
  没人能解释其中一个箱子特别沉重这个事实。
• Streaming is still the only hypothesis to account for translocation in fungus .
  胞质流还仅仅是一种解释真菌中转移的假说。
• Our problem, then, is to account for the self-replicating features of cells .
  现在，我们的问题是说明细胞的自我复制的特征。
• But the fervid facility of his impromptus could not be so accounted for .
  但是，如此解释他那高超的即兴演奏的技巧就不行了。
• All sorts of theories were put forward to account for his apparent affluence .
  大家用各种各样的理由来解释他手头宽裕的原因。
• It is the undoubted right of the people of england to call them to account for it .
  英格兰人民无疑有权要求他们对此作出解释。