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account for ...%represent ...%
如：Girls account for about 50% in the class. 这个班女生约占50%。The continental shelves represent 18% of the earth's total land area. 大陆架占地球总陆地面积的18%。
percentThirty percent of the farmland has been planted to oil crops.百分之三十的农田已种上油料作物。Over ninety percent of the islanders here are illiterate.这儿的岛民,百分之九十以上都是文盲。
account英 [əˈkaʊnt]美 [əˈkaʊnt]n.账，账目; 存款; 记述，报告; 理由。vi.解释; 导致; 报账。vt.认为; 把…视作。[例句]
Some banks make it difficult to open an account一些银行把开户弄得很麻烦。
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译: A accounts for 12.7 percent of B. 或The proportion of A is 12.7% in B.还有其它表达.如下 参与资料: girl students accounted for 47.3 percent of total primary school enrollment. 女在校生比例占47.3％。 The proportion of working women now stands at forty percent. 现在劳动妇女的比例占40％。 The natural reserves should cover around 10% of the territory of the city. 自然保护区总面积占全市国土面积比例达到10%。 All these proportions surpass 8 percent which is the proportion covered by the population of the minority nationalities in the total population of the country. 这些比例全都高于少数民族总人口占全国总人口8%的比例。 Fairly great changes have also taken place in the rural residents' food structure. Of their staple food, the proportion of refined and coarse food grains made up 50 percent each in 1978. In 1997, however, the proportion of the former reached 81.2 percent. 农村居民的食品结构也发生了较大变化，在其主食结构中，1978年粗、细粮消费比例各为50％，到1997年，细粮消费所占比重已高达81.2％； In the NPC and the CPPCC National Committee of successive terms, the percentage of ethnic minority representatives has far exceeded the proportion of the ethnic minority population in the national population, and each of the 55 ethnic minorities, no matter what their populations, has its own representatives. 在历届全国人大、政协中，少数民族代表和委员所占的百分比，都大大超过少数民族在全国人口中所占的比例；55个少数民族不论人口多少都有自己的代表和委员。 It wasn't an overwhelming percentage,but close to 65％. 女性比例虽没有占压倒优势，但接近65％。
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英文：proportion
proportion 读法 英 [prəˈpɔːʃn] 美 [prəˈpɔːrʃn]
n. 比例，占比；部分；面积；均衡
vt. 使成比例；使均衡；分摊
词汇搭配：
1、out of proportion 不成比例
2、mixing proportion 混合比，配合比例
示例：
The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%.
从事那个职业的女性比例已经增长到17.3%。
词语用法：
1、proportion of作“部分”解时，如果后面是不可数名词或单数可数名词（指量），谓语动词要用单数形式；如果后面是复数名词，则谓语动词可以用单数，也可以用复数；当proportion作“比例”解时，无论of后面的名词是单数还是复数，谓语动词一概用单数。
2、in the proportion of意为“按…的比例”。
3、proportion是及物动词，接名词或代词作宾语。可用于被动结构。proportion的宾语后常接介词to引起的短语，意思是“使…与…成比例”。
4、a proportion of表示“……的一部分”，可等同于some和a part of；短语in proportion to表示“与……成比例”或是“与……比较起来”，属固定用语，不可以随意更换介词to。
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account for ...%represent ...%如：Girls account for about 50% in the class. 这个班女生约占50%。The continental shelves represent 18% of the earth's total land area. 大陆架占地球总陆地面积的18%。
