请教老师一个介词to的问题

  老师,此句中to的用法很奇怪:His real motive for his hatred of Mexicans may have been the loss of 800,000 acres of prime timberland to the Mexican outlaw(逃犯), Pancho Villa.似乎这里,正常应用due to,owing to或because of不知老师如何看待。此句来源于星火出版社十五篇文章贯通四级词汇,以下这段:

William hated minorities. He took advantage of every opportunity to heighten racial tensions. His real motive for his hatred of Mexicans may have been the loss of 800,000 acres of prime timberland to the Mexican outlaw (逃犯), Pancho Villa. His papers described them as marijuana-smoking, job-stealing, lazy, wicked, and violent degenerates (堕落). Some suggest he saw the Mexicans as a threat to his empire.

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最佳答案 2017-10-12 15:36

这个to 跟前面的loss 有关:

lose something to sb. (动词结构)

把某物输给某人/把某物丧失给某人

the loss of something to sb.(名词结构)

某物输给了某人/某物丧失给某人 (指“失去”这个事件)

loss 这个名词,既有“损失,遗失,丢失”的意思,也有“失败,失去,输给”之意。


又如:

The decrease in sales is caused by the panic and loss of confidence of traders to the market.

销售量下降是由于交易商对市场的恐慌和信心丧失所引起的。


His real motive for his hatred of Mexicans may have been the loss of 800,000 acres of prime timberland to the Mexican outlaw, Pancho Villa.

【翻译】他憎恨墨西哥人的真正缘由,可能是80万亩优质林地输给了(丧失给)墨西哥逃犯潘昭·维拉。



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