it is the key to 后跟不定式或v-ing形式均可,只是意思上不同。
thekeyto doing sth.
意为:做某事的关键,to是介词,后接名词或动名词;此时的 to doing sth是做定语修饰key 。
thekeyto do sth.
意为:为了达成某目的的关键,后接不定式“to do sth", to do sth作为目的状语存在。
扩展资料
例句:
1、The key to my recovery was meeting some really special friends who made me feel that Imattered because of who I was and not what I wore.
我所以能康复,关键是遇到了一些真正特别的朋友。他们让我感到,我之所以重要,不在于我穿什么衣服,而在于我这个人。
2、Modernizationisthekeytospeedupouragriculturaldevelopment.
现代化是加快农业发展的关键。
3、Nearly all oftheyoung people interviewed believed that work wasthekeytosuccess.
几乎所有被采访的年轻人都认为工作是成功的关键。