short account

名词 short account:

1. a brokerage account of someone who sells short (sells securities he does not own)
2. the aggregate of short sales on an open market

1. A short account of an interesting or humorous incident.
   轶事，趣闻对有趣或幽默事件的短述
2. He prefaced the diary with a short account of how they were discovered.
   他给这本日记写了序言，简述日记发现的经过。
3. He prefaced the diaries with a short account of how they were discovered.
   他给这本日记写了序言，简述日记发现的经过。