to the degree that:达到……程度以致于……;以至于……(用于强调“程度”导致的结果,常见于较正式的书面语、学术写作中)。
/tə ðə dɪˈɡriː ðæt/
The noise increased to the degree that we couldn’t hear each other.
噪音大到我们彼此都听不见对方说话。
He trusted her to the degree that he revealed details he would normally keep private, which later changed how the team viewed him.
他信任她到甚至透露了平时会保密的细节,这后来改变了团队对他的看法。
degree 源自拉丁语 gradus(“步、级、程度”),经法语进入英语;结构 to the degree that 直译为“到……的程度,以至于……”,因此天然带有“程度 → 结果”的逻辑关系,语体偏正式。
该结构常见于论述性与非虚构写作(强调因果与程度),在许多经典英文文本中也能检索到类似用法,例如: