consequently

Compared meaning: as a result, so (connecting adverb).

比较义项：所以，因此（副词，引出结果）。

• therefore

  The most general, all-purpose connector for a conclusion; used in formal and everyday writing or speech alike, often linking evidence or reasoning to a decision or judgment.

  用途最广、最通用的“所以”，正式和日常场合都可以用，常用于由证据或情况推出结论、判断或决定。

  Not all the reports had arrived on time; therefore, the meeting was postponed.

  并非所有报告都按时送到，因此会议被推迟了。

• consequently 本词

  Slightly more formal and literary; stresses that something happened as the direct, almost automatic result of an earlier event, common in narrative or explanatory writing.

  语气略更正式、书面化，强调某事是前面事件几乎自然而然导致的直接后果，常见于叙述性或说明性文章。

  The workers went on strike; consequently, deliveries were delayed for two weeks.

  工人们举行了罢工，结果送货被延误了两个星期。

Both mean 'as a result', linking a cause and its effect, in formal writing. Therefore is the more general word, linking evidence or reasoning to a conclusion. Consequently is more formal and literary, stressing that something is the direct, automatic result of an earlier event.

这两个词都用来连接原因和结果，语气偏正式，常见于书面语；therefore 通用性更强，多用于由证据、情况得出结论或决定，逻辑推理色彩更浓；consequently 更强调某事是前一事件自然导致的直接后果，叙述色彩更强。二者在本义项上意思很接近，学习者容易混用。