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¶ 因果关系
¶ therefore
- He's only 17 and therefore not eligible to vote.
他只有17岁，因此没有投票选举的资格。
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- Muscle cells need lots of fuel and therefore burn lots of calories.
肌肉细胞需要很多“燃料”，并因此燃烧大量卡路里。
- Therefore, we have the chance to innovate and to solve those problems.
因此，我们有机会进行创新来解决这些问题。
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- The 2001-10 period, therefore, was not typical but more like the 1930s and 1970s.
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¶ thus
- Neither of them thought of turning on the news. Thus Caroline didn't hear of John's death until Peter telephoned.
他们俩都没想到要收看新闻。因此，直到彼得打来电话卡罗琳才获悉约翰的死讯。
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- He thus avoided a pack of journalists eager to question him.
他就这样避开了一群急于向他提问的记者。
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- The universities have expanded, thus allowing many more people the chance of higher education.
大学扩招了，这样就使更多人能有机会接受高等教育。
《牛津词典》
- He is the eldest son and thus heir to the title.
他是长子，因此是这个封号的继承人。
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- Jimmy is adopted and thus unrelated to Beth by blood.
吉米是收养的，因此和贝丝无血缘关系。
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- Sex education is a sensitive area for some parents, and thus it should remain optional.
性教育对一些家长来说是个敏感的话题，因此应该还是非强制性的。
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- As we age, the lenses of the eyes thicken, and thus refract light differently.
随着我们年龄的增长，眼睛的晶状体变厚，因此对光线的折射也会发生变化。
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¶ hence
- We suspect they are trying to hide something, hence the need for an independent inquiry.
我们怀疑他们在企图隐瞒什么事，因此有必要进行独立调查。
《牛津词典》
- The trade imbalance is likely to rise again in 2007. Hence a new set of policy actions will be required soon.
贸易不平衡在2007年可能会再度上扬。因此需要很快采取一系列新的政策行动。
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- Hence, the Jovian planets are often called giants.
因此，木星行星通常被称为巨行星。
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¶ consequently
一般表示不好的结果。
- They had children and were consequently tied to the school vacations.
他们有几个孩子，因此被学校假期束缚住了。
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- Consequently even this vast chorus was occasionally overwhelmed by the brass.
结果连这个大合唱偶尔也被铜管乐所压倒。
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- Consequently, even as the blogosphere continues to expand, only a few blogs are likely to emerge as focal points.
因此，虽然博客空间继续扩大，但只有少数博客有可能脱颖而出成为焦点。
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- And instead, I grew up believing that I was supposed to be totally independent and consequently became very reluctant to ask for help.
相反，在我成长的过程中，我一直认为自己应该完全独立，因此我变得非常不愿意寻求帮助。
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¶ as a result
一般表示不好的结果。
- As a result, services have been drastically reduced.
结果，服务被大大减少了。
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- She died as a result of her injuries.
她由于受伤而死亡。
《牛津词典》
- As a result of the Freedom Rides, they had integrated interstate transportation, at great cost to the volunteers who rode those buses.
作为自由乘车运动的结果，州际间的交通被大大集中，不过这使那些乘坐巴士的志愿者们付出了极大的代价。
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¶ Accordingly
语气较缓和。
- The cost of materials rose sharply last year. Accordingly, we were forced to increase our prices.
去年材料成本大幅度提高，因此我们被迫加价。
《牛津词典》
- The neurons cultivated at Johns Hopkins—unlike those culled from tumors are not cancerous, and accordingly are much more valuable as research tools.
在约翰霍普金斯大学培养的神经元不同于那些从肿瘤中挑选出来的神经元，它们并没有癌变，因此作为研究工具更具价值。
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¶ incur
- Are they willing incur such a huge loss?
他们真的愿意承受这样巨大的损失吗？
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- Logs are enabled by default and incur minimal performance overhead.
日志是缺省启用的，只带来最小的性能开销。
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¶ 大幅地
markedly
significantly
considerably
noticeably
notably
¶ 很多的
不要用lots of，这是口语化的。
considerable
noticeable
many / much
numerous
¶ 少的
marginal
negligible
¶ 越来越多的
不要用more and more，这是口语化的。
increasing
growing
accelerating
¶ 此外
不要用What's more，这是口语化的。
In addition
Additionly
¶ 有时
不要用from time to time。
occasionally
periodically (周期性地)
¶ 大约
不要用about，这是口语化的。
approximately
roughly
¶ 倒数第几
单个单词：
倒数第2 penultimate
倒数第3 antepenultimate
不知道适不适合书面语（以倒数第二为例）：
second to last
second from last
next to last
one before the last
last but one
second last
来源：https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/another-word-for/second_to_last.html
还有一个不靠谱的：the reciprocal second，来源：https://zhidao.baidu.com/question/749755384549282412/answer/2867970849。但是我在google上没有搜到这种说法。而且wikipedia上把reciprocal second解释为s^{-1}，即秒的倒数，是一种物理量：https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverse_second。
¶ 由于
不要用Thanks to，这是口语化的。
Due to
Owing to
¶ 不想做了
We leave this to/for future work.
This is left to/for future work.
We leave this as our future work.
¶ 对什么有利
- be of advantage of sth
英语老师认证的书面语。
¶ 不确定
We conjecture that
xxx appears to xxx
¶ of
一句话里不宜连续出现太多of，比如An array of offsets of slots。可以考虑用以下方法替换掉，最终只留一个of：
¶ A of B -> B's A
¶ An array of B -> An array containing B
¶ 适合
A suits well for B
A suits B well
A fits well with B
¶ 其他书面语
- beyond the scope of this paper.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/scope
- exacerbate sth.
e.g. xxx exacerbates the contention of disk I/O.
¶ 一些其他口语化的表达
¶ Wordy (啰嗦)
As far as somebody is concerned.
On the one hand, on the other hand
¶ 绝大多数动词短语
除了result in, result from等，其他绝大多数动词短语都是口语化的，比如set up。
¶ 一些写法的选择
might -> may
256 B -> 256 Byte: 更清晰
¶ 缓存行
cacheline和cache line都在学术论文里见过。但是推荐cache line，因为维基百科里是这样写的，grammarly也只认识cache line。
¶ 能够
be able to太长了，could语气太弱。建议用can，比较简短。
¶ 关于分号
分号的水很深，很容易用错：https://www.grammarly.com/blog/semicolon/
尽量不要用吧。逗号和句号挺好的。
¶ 关于冒号
冒号后面首字母要不要大写众说纷纭：https://www.grammarly.com/blog/capitalization-after-colons/
我认为，冒号后面如果是带序号的几个句子的话，肯定要大写的：
This is a blog: (1) My name is seekstar. (2) My another name is searchstar.
所以冒号后面如果是一个完整的句子的话，就应该大写，这样才显得比较一致：
This is a sentence: My name is seekstar.
如果冒号后面不是一个完整的句子，就不应该首字母大写：
I have two names: seekstar and searchstar.
¶ 一些句式
- at xxx granularity
xxx is well aligned with 某种特性: xxx与 某种特性 贴合得很好。
Obeservation里我们做实验研究了什么什么，可以用We examine xxx，比如We examine how exactly NVM I/O affects the deduplication performance.
xxx can well exploit xxx.
¶ 容易错的点
overhead一般是作为不可数名词。只有当表示多种overhead的时候才是overheads。
来源：https://www.wordhippo.com/what-is/the-plural-of/overhead.html
数字和单位之间要有空隙，用\,比较好。