1.account for (数量或比例上)占;导致;解释
例句:She modestly suggests that 'sex, or at any rate gender, may account for the difference'.
她谨慎地提出“性别,至少是男女的性征,也许能解释这个差异” 。
2.symbolize v. 象征;是……的象征;代表
例句:The fall of the Berlin Wall symbolised the end of the Cold War between East and West.
柏林墙的倒塌象征着东西方冷战的结束 。