therefore
Peter's leaving at the end of this week - hence his anxiety to get his work finished.彼得本周末就要离开了，所以他急着把工作赶完。
The prime minister was attending the conference, hence all the extra security.
He's just got a pay rise, hence the new car.
She's just found out she failed her exams, hence her bad mood.
The firm is owned by Mark Atkins, hence the name - MA Advertising.

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Linguistics: connecting words joining words or phrases with similar or related meanings
and/orphrase
anyhoo
anyhow
anyways
concatenate
conjunctive
conjunctively
ergo
hereby
I meanidiom
mean
now
slash
so
sure enoughidiom
the thing isidiom
there
thing
what
with thatidiom

henceadverb (FROM NOW)

from this time: 从此，从现在起
The project will be completed at the end of the decade, two years hence.本项目将于这个10年期结束时完成，从现在算起还有两年时间。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

In the future & soon
ahead
ahead of
all in good timeidiom
anon
ASAP
away
come
futuristically
gonna
hereon
in
in for somethingidiom
PDQ
posterity
presently
run
shortly
someday
space
yet

hence | American Dictionary

hence
adverb[ not gradable ]
 fmlus/hens/

henceadverb[not gradable] (THEREFORE)

for this reason; therefore:
A better working environment improves people’s performance, and hence productivity.

henceadverb[not gradable] (FROM NOW)

from this time:
The project should be completed by next March, six months hence.

Examples of hence

hence
Hence, such an arrangement permits the handling of a group of pupils psychologically similar, who form a homogeneous social group.
Hence, if there is a solution permitting the visit of an attraction park, then it will only produce those solutions.
It is not a central aspect of perception and hence need not have such a primary role in psychological inquiry.
Finally, at the new steady state, investment ceases, capital, and, hence, output are reduced.
Technical inefficiency is the deviation of an individual vessel's production from this best-practice frontier, and hence is a measure of relative technical efficiency.
The geographical metaphor is particularly useful when discussing the internal structure of a program, and hence it tends to predominate in more technical texts.
Based on a potential error message, they might modify a word or a sentence that is not in fact wrong and hence make things worse.
Hence, as ^ 1 0, the function w(0) tends towards its value with initial conditions (4.56).
Unlike the case of tree planting, however, fallowing of food crop fields does not require labor effort and, hence, tends to weaken land rights.
Hence, their universe is very similar to the earthly universe.
Hence, it is hard to imagine that these two fiber types are working in synchrony on the same behavioral and thought processes.
Hence, there were no reasons to discount volumes of healthcare consumption or effects.
Hence, we decided to categorize all instances of extra vowels at the end of a noun as ambiguous.
A bill based on the weight of the copper (and later zinc), and hence the amount of electricity used, was sent to the household.
It would also have implications for identifying the central pathways conveying the visual information, and hence for the retinal sources.
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