先看诺贝尔物理学奖获得者辛顿的一句话:
My success has been largely due to being able to recruit really brilliant graduate students.(我的成功主要是由于能够招到真正出色的研究生。)
辛顿出生于英国,讲话措辞典雅,从上句也可看出来。
due to 是写作中的高频词,可以表达正面原因、中性或负面原因,上句就是表达正面原因。
例如:
Due to constrained resource, mobile devices are rarely used as servers.(由于资源受限,移动设备极少用作服务器。)
Due to breakthrough in convolutional neural networks, artificial neural networks received particular attention from academia and industry.(由于卷积神经网络方面的突破,人工神经网络受到了学术界和工业界的特别关注。)
Due to development of big data and GPU, building and training large language models turned out to be feasible.(由于大数据和GPU的发展,建立和训练大语言模型成为可行。)
Due to universal gravitation, planets can go around the sun. (由于万有引力的存在,行星能绕太阳运转。)
due to 有同义表达because of、thanks to ,但它们在写作用的不多。
此外,due to 不能带从句。需要带从句时用since、as表示“由于”,不再举例。
(除说明外,例句均属原创)