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。

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。

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。

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。

Tom chased the traitor home, and thus found out where he lived.

汤姆追着叛徒到了他的家，这样就知道他住在哪儿了。

They are difficult to maintain and thus need more operating costs.

他们很难维持,因此需要更多的运营成本。

Zoos save people trips to wilderness areas and thus contribute to wildlife conservation.

动物园使人们无需前往野外地区（就能看到动物），从而为野生动物保护做出了贡献。

As wind speed increases, so does turbulence, and thus the rate of heat and moisture transfer.

随着风速增加，湍流也变得更强烈，因此热量和湿度的比例得以转移。

There is an increase in the number of television channels available to viewers, and thus advertisers.

可供观众观看的电视频道数量增加了，因此广告商也增加了。

Instruments may be associated only with special events and thus transmit valuable cultural information.

乐器可能只与特殊事件相关，因此传递着有价值的文化信息。

Thus, fever would make it more difficult for an infecting bacterium to acquire iron and thus to multiply.

因此，发烧会使感染细菌更难获得铁，从而更难繁殖。

In the Middle Ages, it was thought to hatch from barnacles, and thus was considered "fish" and could be eaten on Fridays.

在中世纪，人们以为本种可来自藤壶，因此视之为“鱼”，并可在星期五吃。

Is the store with the supercheap flat screens going to go bust and thus not be there to honor the "free" extended warranty?

拥有超便宜平板屏幕的商店是否会破产，从而无法兑现“免费”延保？

By the 16th century, a pendulum clock had been devised, but the pendulum swung in a large arc and thus was not very efficient.

到了16世纪，人们发明了摆钟，但钟摆摆动的幅度很大，因此效率不高。

When you want to enjoy the surround sound effects, someone begins to enjoy their drinks and popcorn and thus makes a lot of noises.

当你想要享受环绕声效果的时候，有人开始享受他们的饮料和爆米花，因此制造了很多噪音。

Americans flocked to these fairs to admire the new machines and thus to renew their faith in the beneficence of technological advance.

美国人蜂拥而至，到这些博览会去欣赏这些新机器，从而重新燃起了他们对技术进步有益的信念。

Environmental campaigns that tell us how many people drive SUVs unwittingly imply that this behaviour is widespread and thus permissible.

环保运动告诉我们有多少人不经意地驾驶 SUV，这意味着这种行为是普遍的，因此是允许的。

These roads made possible a reduction in transportation costs and thus stimulated the commercialization of agriculture along their routes.

这些道路使得运输成本能够降低，从而刺激了沿线农业的商业化。

Unlike the many winter greens that have tough leaves and thus require a lengthy cooking time, those of escarole need little or no cooking.

与许多冬天的绿色植物不同，它们的叶子很硬，因此需要很长时间来烹饪，莴苣菜几乎不需要烹饪。

This integrated approach would allow the market shares of the other modes to return to their 1998 levels and thus make a shift of balance.

这种综合的方法将使其他模式的市场份额恢复到其1998年的水平，从而使平衡发生转变。

That is doubly true of the cells in stored blood since red blood cells become less flexible with age, and thus less able to squish into capillaries.

对于储藏的血液细胞而言更是如此，因为红细胞随着年龄的增长而日益失去弹性，因此就越来越难以挤到毛细血管里。

When fully grown, however, the crabs can readily withstand tidal currents without burrowing, and thus they acquire substantial populations of barnacles.

然而，当蟹完全长大后，它们不需要穴居就能很容易地承受潮汐流，因此它们获得了大量的藤壶。

Before egg fertilization, the gene produces a protein, found in the cytoplasm of the egg, that controls the pattern of cell division and thus handedness.

卵子受精之前，这种基因会产生一种蛋白质，这种蛋白质存在于卵子的细胞质中，它控制着细胞分裂的模式，从而控制着旋向性。

In many dances the participants are modeling typical activities of their culture and thus imparting instructions and historical information to the audience.

在许多舞蹈中，舞者都在模仿其文化中的典型活动，从而向观众传达相关知识和历史信息。

In many dances, the participants are modeling typical activities of their culture and thus imparting instructions and historical information to the audience.

在许多舞蹈中，参与者模仿典型的文化活动，从而向观众传达指示和历史信息。

The most plausible justification for higher taxes on automobile fuel is that fuel consumption harms the environment and thus adds to the costs of traffic congestion.

提高汽车燃油税最合理的理由是，燃料消耗会损害环境，从而增加交通拥堵的成本。

Since Olympic Foods will soon celebrate its twenty-fifth birthday, we can expect that our long experience will enable us to minimize costs and thus maximize profits.

由于 Olympic Foods 即将庆祝它的25岁生日，我们可以期待，我们的长期经验将使我们能够使成本最小化，从而使利润最大化。

In addition, new digital technologies have allowed more rapid trading of equities, quicker use of information, and thus shorter attention spans in financial markets.

此外，新的数字技术已使得股票交易更迅速、信息使用更快捷，且因此使得金融市场中注意力的时间跨度更短暂。

Moreover, mutual respect, support and encouragement in a team helps foster a sense of belonging, maintain harmony in the workplace and thus improve job satisfaction.

此外，团队中的相互尊重、支持和鼓励有助于培养归属感，保持工作场所的和谐，从而提高工作满意度。

Instead, the most sensible thing would be for neighbors to combine efforts to produce as much food as possible, and thus aggregated towns were a sensible arrangement.

"相反，最明智的举措是邻里之间一起努力生产尽可能多的食物，这样将人口聚集起来的城镇就是一种明智的安排。