单词	thus
释义	thusthus /ðʌs/ ●●○ W3 adverb formal Word Origin WORD ORIGINthus Origin: Old English Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Doucet sums it up thusly: "To me, Cajun music really is the heart of our culture." The houses were used for soldiers. Thus, the structures survived the Civil War. The product was delivered on time, and we have thus fulfilled our promise. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS External reality and psychic reality are thus inextricably intertwined. Obtaining food and drink thus became a tricky balancing act. The recent and the more or less distant past thus combine in the amalgam of the present. The tax has the effect of reducing the overhead component of retailing and thus increasing total output. There are thus a considerable number who appear in the autobiographies as simple vignettes. This allowed for fairly good availability of well selected donor organs thus more easily facilitating an urgent transplant programme. Thesaurus THESAURUS► therefore for this reason: · She already had a lot of experience and therefore seemed the best candidate for the job. ► so therefore. So is less formal than therefore, and is more common in everyday English: · They had not eaten all day, so they were very hungry. ► thus formal as a result of what you have just mentioned: · The program is very simple and thus easy to run. ► hence formal for this reason: · This material is highly poisonous, hence the importance of careful handling. ► as a result used when saying that because of a particular situation, something else happens or is true: · Some people suffer from stress at work and become ill as a result.· Economic growth slowed down as a result of inflation. ► consequently/as a consequence used when saying that because of a particular situation, something else happens or is true. Consequently and as a consequence are more formal than as a result: · The disease attacks the plant, the flower does not open, and consequently no seeds are produced.· As a consequence of global warming, our climate is already starting to change. ► this means that used when saying what the result of something is: · If students arrive late, this means that lesson time is wasted. ► for this reason used when explaining the reason for something: · Spell check programs do not recognize when you have used the wrong word. For this reason, you must still read over your work carefully. Collocations COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► far · Mention of the Ryder Cup brings us to the highlight of Torrance's career thus far.· The workers of the Red Cross are among the few heroes thus far, he said.· Kirov mulled over what he knew of the man thus far.· Only, thus far, what the act of leaving his own is.· It is thus far from the case that the search for intelligibility comes to an end with history as such.· The changed look at once dissipated the sinister aspect that the gentleman had generated thus far.· There is, thus far, no global plan apparent which we would regard as logical and satisfying.· If this book was simply an academic text it would conclude with Chapter 8, which is a summarizing review thus far. VERB► allow · More literary verse usually has fewer levels of metrical organisation, thus allowing the poet a more flexible use of language.· The manometer readings provide the best guide to circulatory volume and thus allow fluid replacement therapy to be accurately calculated.· The decision as to whether or not to proceed is always made by the originator, thus allowing for his or her growth.· The response was rather disappointing but at least 40% of the forms were returned thus allowing the scheme to go forward.· All manufacturing units have been consolidated into United Distillers Production Inc., thus allowing for significant rationalisation and productivity enhancement.· It binds to haemoglobin much more readily than oxygen, thus allowing the blood to carry less oxygen. ► avoid · Governments are constantly striving to create equality thus avoiding conflict and hardship such as this Court ruling has done.· In order to obtain better prices for their cotton, black businessmen sent it directly to Galveston, thus avoiding local middlemen.· They can thus avoid the costs of variety and added risk in a volatile market.· The system thus avoids the seemingly interminable delays that bedevil on-line services when they are used to transmit graphics.· He will thus avoid buying material before it can be used by accepting a small and defined risk of delaying production. ► become · In distinctive feature analysis the features themselves thus become important components of the phonology.· But as public school attendance became mandatory, and as graduation thus became commonplace, the number of college students increased astronomically.· It has thus become a vicious circle of spoken mumbo jumbo.· This collection of materials for the building of the temple thus becomes an acceptable free-will offering because it is acknowledged as gift.· But although Gloucester was thus becoming politically visible for the first time, he was as yet of only limited importance.· The photographic camera thus became the foremost means for producing or recording such images.· It thus became unsafe for Richard Baxter to remain in Kidderminster.· Obtaining food and drink thus became a tricky balancing act. ► create · Imperialism focused on one or two natural resources, thus creating a homogeneous agricultural proletariat, all doing the same labouring job.· The court thus created the first exception in eighteen years to the Miranda rule.· Information about the study is presented clearly and concisely, thus creating an ideal text for nurses new to evaluating research reports.· The money thus created is put into use and then constitutes an interest-free loan from the populace.· Moreover, overcapacity reduced margins during the 1980s when the real costs of construction rose, thus creating higher barriers to entry.· This is done by adding an edge L to K, thus creating a cycle.· The Conservatives say its imposition would raise business costs and thus create unemployment.· Goods/services are supplied by the seller to the buyer, thus creating an obligation to pay a sum of money. ► enable · Glasses soften rather than melt, thus enabling their characteristic working into complex shapes.· These were mainly used for pumping water out of mines, thus enabling deeper seams to be exploited.· Before 1905 was out the spectre of social upheaval thus enabled the Tsar's government to regain the initiative. ► ensure · Myeloski had then insisted that they commandeer the seats on either side, thus ensuring them of privacy on the journey.· Involving users directly in the needs assessment process, thus ensuring them a voice in assistance provided to them. 3.· Bright 16-year-olds abandon all but two or three academic subjects, thus ensuring that scientists remain unread, and arts students maths-blind.· The dynamics of capital accumulation thus ensure that property is distributed unequally, and that it remains so.· The number of people seen is high - up to 100 patients a day - thus ensuring that unit costs are kept low.· Consequently, it was decided that he should no longer be fed, thus ensuring that he would die. ► give · Wage incentives were needed to motivate officials, thus giving bureaucracy an institutional and material basis for power.· Great areas of grass and woodland thus give way to mesquite desert, at an awesome economic loss to man.· Each area is scored out of 10 and the company is thus given an overall rating out of 200.· Collectivism is thus given a very positive image when linked to constitutional guarantees of individual rights.· Every four years each of the fields would be fallow at least once, thus giving the soil a rest.· I improvised by putting colour into an ice cube tray - thus giving me deep wells and plenty of colour.· And her victim had run away, and thus given herself away.· Beds representing marine invasions may contain marine shells or brackish water shells, thus giving an indication of local conditions. ► increase · The over-confident driver or motorcyclist may overtake without due caution, thus increasing the risk of causing a road traffic accident.· By compounding emphasis, the favorite sites get more visitors, thus increasing further visitors.· The tax has the effect of reducing the overhead component of retailing and thus increasing total output.· Both are more efficient ways for subscribers to download and upload more and larger files, thus increasing network usage.· The money supply will thus increase.· This results in prolonging the action potential and thus increases calcium influx into the cell.· Not surprisingly these devices are distributed with little or no instruction on correct use - thus increasing women's health problems.· In addition, some subsidy programs help to raise interest rates and thus increase borrowing costs for traditional public activities. ► leave · The sick spider at the heart of the web? Thus leaving the descendants of the cabal in charge of the Imperium?· They were thus left to fend for themselves, aided only by the diplomatic intercession of the Protestant Cantons.· Indeed, to change this evaluation and thus leave Plato behind is the most important change we have to bring about. ► make · Kasparov prefers to keep the board crowded, thus making White's defensive task as difficult as possible.· It can also cause a reduced milk yield, thus making the pups cry, creating yet more stress.· It thus makes Britain a technological backwater.· Animal Adoption Visitors may adopt an animal and thus make a contribution towards the cost of that animal's upkeep.· It would have a repulsive gravitational effect, and thus make those regions expand in an inflationary manner.· Note that financial assets and liabilities cancel one another out, thus making net worth equal to the value of physical assets. ► provide · The wall thus provides a template for the pattern of the migrating cells.· History-events may occur in addition to the experimental treatment and thus provide alternate explanations of effects.· Clearly this definition can be generalized in order to compare a number of different systems and thus provide a useful comparative measure.· The ward thus provides an ideal setting for learning.· These are both very liquid and interest-earning assets and thus provide a valuable second line of reserves.· The network thus provides a relatively systematic means of comparing intuitions about texts.· Such questions will often generate discussion among the students generally and thus provide a useful means of stimulating their interest.· It thus provides a gross measure of the extent of euro-currency intermediation. ► reduce · The main effect of these changes was to create a number of new authorities and thus reduce their average size.· A man of practical rather than financial intelligence, Garth failed as a builder and thus reduced his family to frugality.· The Stock Exchange thus reduces the cost of capital to companies.· They could be purchased cheaply, thus reducing models' fees.· To optimise the allocation of available resources and thus reduce the usage of scarce resources such as energy.· This would reduce aggregate demand directly and thus reduce the transactions demand for money.· The idea is to retreat to the oasis whenever you can, thus reducing your overall exposure.· This creates grounds for closure of the less popular school and thus reduces educational provision in the more deprived area. Phrases PHRASES FROM THE ENTRY► thus far Robinson thus far has been able to keep his promises to the voters. Attorney General Dan Lungren is the lone Republican candidate thus far. His policy thus far has been to do nothing but not to acknowledge the inaction. Suffice to have the benefits of their research, which has thus far produced the ultimate in extreme strength for smallest diameter. The Altru Hospital Auxiliary has given the largest contribution thus far. The changed look at once dissipated the sinister aspect that the gentleman had generated thus far. The discussion of space thus far has been somewhat backside foremost. There have been previous estimates that he had spent $ 12 million thus far. 1[sentence adverb] as a result of something that you have just mentioned:  Most of the evidence was destroyed in the fire. Thus it would be almost impossible to prove him guilty.► see thesaurus at therefore2in this manner or way:  They diluted the drug, thus reducing its effectiveness.3thus far until now:  Her political career thus far had remained unblemished.RegisterThus is formal or literary. In everyday English, people usually say so:· So it was decided that he should be chairman.· We haven’t had any problems so far.
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