字典解释
“thankfully”是副词,意思是“幸亏、幸运的是、令人欣慰的是”。注意,虽然从字面上看, thankfully 等同于 gratefully,但这种用法是有争议的。thankfully 最常见的的意思更接近 luckily 和 fortunately,即“幸运的是、谢天谢地”。这个词很好用,也是很多学习者想不起来会用的一个词。我们来通过几个例句掌握。
例句
我们举办活动经常会说有这样那样的担心,但是如果过程很顺利,我们事后可以说:
Thankfully, everything went smoothly. (这里的thankfully也可以替换成fortunately)
又一次我乘坐飞机迟到了,但幸运的是飞机晚点了,所以最后还是赶上了飞机。
Once I was late for my flight. Thankfully, the flight got delayed, and I was able to board it eventually.
《经济学人》一篇关于政府如何更好地治理垃圾的文章中有这么一句:
Thankfully, rubbish is one environmental issue where there is little need to worry about political incentives.(言外之意是:政府在解决一些问题的时候,人们会质疑它的动机。)
翻译
还好,我们在推出产品之前及时发现了一个瑕疵,并马上解决了问题。
Thankfully, before we promote products, we found an error and solved it quickly.
参考翻译
Thankfully, we spotted a product defect in time and fixed it before the launch.
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