Due to vs Because of

ucccafe · 发表于 2019-3-20 01:20:56

Right: The business failed because of its poor location.

Wrong: The business failed due to its poor location.

Right: The business’s failure was due to poor location.

Wrong: The business’s failure was because of poor location.

參見
https://www.rd.com/culture/diffe ... -to-and-because-of/

dfliaoyue · 发表于 2019-3-20 17:40:07

来自牛津词典的Usage：

Due to in the sense ‘because of’, as in he had to retire due to an injury, has been condemned as incorrect on the grounds that due is an adjective and should not be used as a preposition; owing to is often recommended as a better alternative. However, the prepositional use, first recorded at the end of the 19th century, is now common in all types of literature and is regarded as part of standard English

链接：https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/due
不用钻牛角尖，有多少词的词性都在使用中得到扩展了。何况一些学术期刊的guideline （忘了是Elsevier还是Wiley）中建议 due to 作为更正式的用法替代 because of。全世界都在这么用，非说这是错的，没必要。

逆风的香 · 发表于 2019-3-20 02:24:14

在新牛津due to词条下有个义项是这么说的:

2 because of; owing to.因为，由于。
he had to withdraw due to a knee injury.
他因为膝伤而不得不退出。

就这个意思和例句而言，二者可以互换。

在longman词典的语域一栏中标明二者的使用场合不太一样：

Due to is mostly used in formal or official contexts. In everyday English, people usually use because of: due to 大多用于正式或官方文章。在日常英语中,人们一般用 because of

We cancelled the picnic because of the weather.
由于天气原因,我们取消了野餐。

aichoer · 发表于 2019-3-20 12:22:26

本帖最后由 aichoer 于 2019-3-20 12:24 编辑

牛津高阶的例句：The project had to be abandoned due to a lack of government funding.
但是牛津高阶也确实有条注释：“Some people think that it is more correct to use owing to to mean ‘because of’ after a verb or at the beginning of a clause, as dueis an adjective. 有人认为在动词之后或从句之首用 owing to 表示‘因为’更合适，因为 due 是形容词。”
我觉得这个“some people”就是像TBBT里的Sheldon一样的人吧。

sabrina2111 · 发表于 2019-3-20 13:09:27

楼主给的链接讲得很清楚，because of 修饰动词，做原因状语，due to修饰名词。

ericqjy · 发表于 2019-3-28 18:57:51

dfliaoyue 发表于 2019-3-20 17:40
来自牛津词典的Usage：
链接：https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/due
不用钻牛角尖，有多少词 ...

没必要太硬性规定。正解。

倩何人微斯人 · 发表于 2019-4-10 12:30:42

对于这个问题，
PEU是这样解释的：
“Due to and owing to are similar to 'because of'. Due to is more common than owing to.”

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