經典解析提高英語戰力1000（No.89）

89.Thanks to a group of public-spirited citizens, the Krippendorf garden has been preserved.

多虧了一些熱心公益的市民，克裡彭多夫花園才得以保留了下來。

thanks to多虧，幸虧，托賴，虧得，多謝，由于，根據

下面通過經典例句學習，已達到融會貫通：

Thanks to you,I was saved from drowning.

多虧了你，我才沒有被淹死。

Everyone knows about it now, thanks to you!

多虧了你，現在大家都知道了！

Thanks to the old man, we found the lost child at last.

多虧了那個老人，我們終于找到了那個失蹤的孩子。

Thanks to that job I became an avid reader

多虧了那份工作我才成了一個喜歡閱讀的人。

avid[ˈævɪd]

adj.熱心的;熱衷的;渴望的;酷愛的;渴求的

Thanks to the automobile, Americans soon had a freedom of movement previously unknown.

由于有了汽車，美國人很快就獲得了前所未有的行動自由。

Thanks to her skilful handling of the affair, the problem was averted.

多虧她對事情處理得巧妙，才避免了麻煩。

Thanks to Bateman's heroics in the second half, the team won 2 – 0.

由于貝特曼在下半場的英勇表現，球隊以2:0獲勝。

Thanks to recent research, effective treatments are available.

多虧近來的研究才有了有效的療法。

Thanks to the angle at which he stood, he could just see the sunset

由于站的位置視角好，他剛好能看見日落。

They were already under stress, thanks to the aftershock of last year's drought.

去年遭受的旱災讓他們心有餘悸、倍感憂慮。

Thanks to a new EU directive, insecticide labelling will be more specific.

根據歐盟的一項新指令，殺蟲劑的标簽标注将更加明确。

Painful typhoid injections are a thing of the past, thanks to the introduction of an oral vaccine

自從發明了口服疫苗後，令人痛苦的傷寒疫苗注射就成為了過去。

Thanks to the Internet, mail is now instantly available.

多虧有了網際網路，郵件現在可即時接收。

Thanks to our hard work, we can fulfil the task on time.

托賴大家的努力，才能按時完成任務。

Thanks to your help, we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.

虧得你們幫忙，我們才提前完成了任務。

Thanks to everybody's help, we finished the job on time.

虧得大家幫忙，我們才按時把這活兒幹完。

Thanks to the wife's care his health has really picked up.

在妻子照顧下，他的病有了起色。

Thanks to my teacher, I made rapid progress.

多虧了我的老師，我取得了快速的進步。

Thanks to these and other factors, developing teams must become more efficient.

由于這些和其他因素，開發團隊必須更加有效率。

Thanks to the English language，we can learn a lotfrom other countries.由于英語這門語言，人們能從其他國家學得很多東西。

thanks to，也可以轉換為：It is thanks to ……that 從句

Thanks to this committee， many new sponsors have come forward

又有許多贊助商找上門來，這要歸功于這個委員會。

=It is thanks to this committee that many new sponsors have come forward

no thanks to與……無關，這沒有……的功勞

We managed to get it finished in the end ─ no thanks to him.

我們終于把這件事完成了，但這沒有他的什麼功勞。

《牛津高階英漢雙解詞典》

= It is no thanks to him that we managed to get it finished in the end.

It is no thanks to the Government that net assets did rise.

淨資産的确增長了，但這與政府無關。

It’s no thanks to you that I arrived on time. 我按時到了，跟你沒什麼關系。

thanks to 強調感謝的對象，側重強調感謝的對象，後接名詞、代詞和名詞性短語。相當于：because of ,with the help of.