thus

Word family

thus /ðʌs/ W3 adverbadv formal

1 [sentence adverbadv]SO/CONSEQUENTLY as a result of something that you have just mentioned 因此，因而，從而

Most of the evidence was destroyed in the fire. Thus it would be almost impossible to prove him guilty.

大多數證據已在大火中燒毀，因而要證明他有罪幾乎是不可能的。

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2 RESULTin this manner or way 以此種方式；如此，這樣

They diluted the drug, thus reducing its effectiveness.

他們把藥稀釋，這樣就減輕了它的藥效。

3 thus far formal NOWuntil now 到此爲止，迄今

Her political career thus far had remained unblemished.

她的政治生涯迄今爲止仍是清白的。

Thus is formal or literary. In everyday English, people usually say so: thus語氣正式，帶文學色彩。在日常英語中，人們一般說so

So it was decided that he should be chairman.

於是就決定由他來當主席。

We haven’t had any problems so far.

到目前爲止我們沒有任何問題。

Examples from the Corpus

thus far• Attorney General Dan Lungren is the lone Republican candidate thus far.• 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.• There have been previous estimates that he had spent $ 12 million thus far.• Robinson thus far has been able to keep his promises to the voters.• The discussion of space thus far has been somewhat backside foremost.• 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.

Examples from the Corpus

thus• Doucet sums it up thusly: "To me, Cajun music really is the heart of our culture."• There are thus a considerable number who appear in the autobiographies as simple vignettes.• 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 product was delivered on time, and we have thus fulfilled our promise.• The tax has the effect of reducing the overhead component of retailing and thus increasing total output.• External reality and psychic reality are thus inextricably intertwined.• This allowed for fairly good availability of well selected donor organs thus more easily facilitating an urgent transplant programme.• The houses were used for soldiers. Thus, the structures survived the Civil War.

Origin thus

Old English

Corpus