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英语单词 thus
英美音标 英 [ðʌs] 美 [ðʌs]
中文释义 adv.这样;如此;因此;从而
英语例句 (1) Hold the wheel in both hands, thus.
(2) The text runs thus.
(3) He forgot to turn on the radio and thus missed the program.
(4) The mass production can decrease the cost and thus they can not be so expensive.
中文例句 (1) 用双手握住方向盘
(2) 原文如此。
(3) 他忘了打开收音机,因此错过了那个节目。
(4) 大规模生产能降低成本
vocabulary简明 Use the adverb thus in place of words like therefore or so when you want to sound proper.
vocabulary扩展 Use thus interchangeably with words like consequently, ergo, hence, and just like that. For example, if you want to sound fancy you could say no one showed up for water aerobics, thus the class was cancelled. It had to be thus. Thus is also, rarely, a noun that means a good-smelling gum resin from trees that we don't really use anymore.
柯林斯解释
1
[ADV 副词]所以;因此 You use thus to show that what you are about to mention is the result or consequence of something else that you have just mentioned.
  [ADV with cl/group]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Neither of them thought of turning on the lunch-time news. Thus Caroline didn't hear of John's death until Peter telephoned...

    两个人谁也没有想到打开电视看午间新闻,所以直到彼得打来电话,卡罗琳才得知约翰的死讯。

  • Even in a highly skilled workforce some people will be more capable and thus better paid than others.

    就算是在技术高度熟练的劳动者中,也会有人能力更强,因此,薪水也就更高。

  • ...women's access to the basic means of production and thus to political power.

    女性获得基本的生产资料,从而获得政治权力

2
[ADV 副词]就像这样;以这种方式 If you say that something is thus or happens thus you mean that it is, or happens, as you have just described or as you are just about to describe.
  [ADV with v]
  [FORMAL 正式]
  • Joanna was pouring the drink. While she was thus engaged, Charles sat on one of the bar-stools...

    乔安娜正在倒酒。就在她正忙的当儿,查尔斯坐在了一张酒吧凳子上。

  • Martin helped his father dig the water gardens out by hand. Thus he discovered his interest in gardening.

    马丁亲手帮他父亲修建起了水景园,就这样对园艺产生了兴趣。

3
thus far→see:
far

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