因果 A60-66
必然产生
- it follows that: 边说现象, 边想结果, 说完现象后再说结果
- There are hundreds of increasingly easy digital tools for music production coming up everyday. It follows that the amount of low-quality music in terms of the ideas other than the production is on the rise.
- it doesn't follow that
- The idea of building personal alternative controller has been widely adopted. But it doesn't follow that the number of widely-accepted musical works would be on a dramatic rise.
转而:
- in turn
- Tech advances alter our physical and social environments, which in turn demand different adaptive strategies and a reshaping of culture
注定:
- be doomed to
- Identical copy of other's ideas is doomed to be disregarded.
- be bound to
不必然:
- This is not to say that
- This doesn't say/mean that
本质上, 本身:
- in itself / themselves
- Work, instead of being an activity satisfying in itself and pleasurable, became a duty and an obsession.
- in its own right
- This array of events should draw enough attention in their own right.
原因/结果 A50-57
出于(连词, 从句)
- born of / out of: 连词
- Goth music shares the dark atmosphere born of the cult background.
- as a result of..: 从句
- As a result of your hard work, the paper received a high rating.
- by virtue of / thanks to: 褒义, 连词
- Success itself retained moral and social overtones, by virtue of its contribution to the sum of human comfort and progress.
- on the grounds of /that: 连词/从句两用
- owing to : 替代due to
- grow out of
- Country music grew out of American Southern folk music.
成功失败的归因 (动词)
- owe ....to: 褒义
- Billy Corgan owes the idea of Smashing Pumpkins to his personal idol:Pink Floyd.
- attribute ... to: 褒/贬义, 动词
- They tend to attribute the failure to someone else.
- ascribe ... to: 贬义, 动词
- Boys ascribe failure to not trying hard enough
问题溯源
- trace to
- The bug can be traced to an earlier inappropriate naming.
- has roots in
- Indie music more or less has its roots in early psychedelic music.
- be responsible for: 原因语序在前
- The carelessness in naming convention should be responsible for most part of these undetected bugs.
- originate in / have the origin in
- date back to / from
来自
- arise from / stem from
- evolve from
- Solutions must evolve from a better understanding of the humans that drive the system and from a fuller appreciation of the limits and potential of the earth's resources.
- spring from
- result from
- derive from / be derived from
- grow out of
依赖
- a reliance on
- What tied it all together was a foundation in the blues, a reliance on group interplay and unpredictable improvisation.
造就结果
- give birth to
- Though the term "avant garde" carries the implication that a work so described is "ahead of the pack," the avant garde gave birth to a genuinely popular movement in the last third of the twentieth century.
扮演...角色
- play .... key role; be key player
- The original choreographer of The Rite of Spring, VASLAV|NIJINSKY,|AND|Vaslav Nijinsky, and its promoter, ,|Serge Diaghilev, were key players in expanding the vocabulary of dance beyond its traditionally graceful set of moves,
频率 A40
越来越:
- be/become increasingly/progressively
- It becomes increasingly difficult to find cracked software.
越来越多, 上升:
- on the rise/increase
- The number of people who pay the exclusive attention to physical modelling is still on the rise.
易于:
- be prone to:
- Those who don't know how to get themselves distracted from intensive work a little bit are prone to all kinds of health problems
- be inclined to
通常:
- for the most part: "usually"
- When falling in love, one, for the most part, might be inclined to come to a set of exclusively positive conclusions about one's beloved.
程度 A20 - 30
过分,过头:
- carry (drink, talk, praise) to excess / extreme
- If carried to excess, the best feature could turn into the most boring one.
- If carrised to the extreme of denying all possible immediate ideas, programming becomes nothing but a curse.
....程度上
- to an extent/degree that
- Sometimes the secrecy goes to such an extent that the whole nature of the research cannot be mentioned.
- to a great/large/certain extent/degree: 很大程度上
- to the point of
某种意义上
仅仅靠:
- by itself, alone
- Music, by itself, is not a clearly defined entity.
- Video game alone is not capable of causing health problem.
无非:
- nothing more than
- Suicide is nothing more than an positive action of ending a lifetime pain.
- nothing less than, nothing short of: 不亚于
- The technique of compression is nothing less than a deep understanding of data structure and even semantics.
- amount to
- Reverberation amounts to first reflection and late reflection
濒于:
- on the brink/verge of
- The Chinese Rock scene is on the brink of destruction.
唯一的:
- exclusively
- Elegance is not the exclusive concern of design.
主要的
- among other things, "mainly"
- Music is, among other things the ability to speak without raising your voice.
范围 A15-19 外加; 其一; 涉及范围; 规模
外加, 加上:
- coupled with..
- The harsh vocal, coupled with soaring lead guitar, creates a typical stereotype of death metal sound.
- combinded with
- Better arrangement of time slots, combined with highly efficient operation, has proven to accelerate the whole process.
其一, 其二:
- for one thing, for another...
- For one thing, experemental music actually supplies advanced tools and inspiration for mainstream music; For another, it itself possesses particular value of aesthetics.
涉及从...到...
- range from ... to ...
- This is what you mostly hear from those who claim their identity as special music lover: I listen to everything ranging from Classical to Avant Garde.....
- Comedy records range from pleasant one-liners to bawdy stand-up.
- around
- Most of its songs are built around three chords and a plain melody.
- fall into
- "World music" refers either to music that doesn't fall into the North American and British pop or folk traditions or to hybrids of various indigenous musics.
在....规模上:
- On a .... scale..
- Grunge once penetrated all traditional culture on a worldwide scale..
- My English is being improved on a moderate scale.
- across ...spectrum of
- What needs to be fixed was a host of issues and problems across the health, educational, environmental, political spectrum
属于
- fall into
- In the Western world, "World music" refers either to music that doesn't fall into the North American and British pop or folk traditions or to hybrids of various indigenous musics.
范围 A13-14: 除...之外
除...之外:
- with the exception of: (except for)
- with the exception of a small number of indie band
- other than: 之外...
- Metal is everything other than non-metal rock....
- no other ... than:
- I find no other reason for this 2nd thresholding than a funny guess that there would be more noises after the 1st step.
- all but:
- He can shade all but Dire Straits's lead guitar.
- nothing but:
- Working for people other than yourself is nothing but a waste of life.
- apart/aside from
- in addition to
A10-19: 范围 A10-12: 不仅而且, 既又
不仅, 而且 (A, B) - go beyond:
- His speech goes beyond the basic transmission of information
- as much ... as:
- The success will depend as much on strong political will as on wise economic policy
- as well as:
- as well:
- no less ... than:
- a mixture of / between
X-FILE s2-8
- We all kown the field we play in and we all know what could happen in the course of the game, so if you are unprepared for all the potentials then you shouldn't step on the field.
- I'll trade every medal for one second with you.
- Who're u to decide what's right?
- When I started out, this room was where they kept copiers.
- I did it out of blind faith.
- There is no point in anything anymore.
- They believe you have information about her being kept in your desk in ur apartment
- make contact
- harmonic version of crap
- I had this strenth of your beliefs