ripple effect
英 [ˈrɪpl ɪfekt]
美 [ˈrɪpl ɪfekt]
n. 连锁反应
牛津词典
noun
- 连锁反应
a situation in which an event or action has an effect on sth, which then has an effect on sth else- His resignation will have a ripple effect on the whole department.
他的辞职将会在整个部门中引起连锁反应。
- His resignation will have a ripple effect on the whole department.
柯林斯词典
- N-COUNT 连锁反应;涟漪作用
If an event or action has aripple effect, it causes several other events to happen one after the other.- Delayed flights have a ripple effect. Just one late flight could be carrying passengers for a dozen connecting services.
航班晚点会引发连锁反应。仅仅一趟晚点的航班就可能运载着许多需要转机的乘客。
- Delayed flights have a ripple effect. Just one late flight could be carrying passengers for a dozen connecting services.
双语例句
- Those deviations tend to have a ripple effect throughout the economy as a whole ( Tom Clancy)
那些偏差看来对整个经济都要产生连锁反应（汤姆克兰西） - Snow and ice storms have closed highways and rail lines across central China, with the ripple effect back through the national transport system felt most keenly in Guangzhou, capital of southern Guangdong Province.
中国中部地区的高速公路与铁路因雪灾及冰暴原因关闭，这在全国运输系统中产生了连锁反应，而最受影响最大的莫过于广州，它是南方省份广东的省会。 - The movement has started by shaming endowments, hoping to produce a ripple effect and transform energy producers into sin stocks akin to tobacco companies.
该运动从羞辱基金会开始，希望以此产生连锁反应，让能源生产企业变为类似于烟草公司的罪恶股票（sinstocks）。 - And yet, some expect that too much cost cutting could cause a ripple effect across local and state governments.
然而，有人预计巨大的成本削减会对州政府和联邦政府产生涟漪效应。 - Also, there's tight coupling between applications, because changes made to the database have a ripple effect, which makes the design of the shared database difficult.
而且应用程序之间还存在着紧密耦合关系，由于对数据库的更改有一个连锁反应，因此这使得共享数据库的设计变得非常困难。 - However, not to be overlooked is the indirect income, which will mainly come as a ripple effect of hosting many companies and related personnel in the U-CITY.
然而，很多公司和相关人员在U型城市所产生的连锁间接收入不容忽视。 - The bank crash has had a ripple effect on the whole community.
银行倒闭对整个社会产生了波及影响。 - If this happens on a large scale, as it did in the1930s, the ripple effect for the economy as a whole can be devastating.
如果这样的事情在一个比较大的尺度上发生（就像1930年代那样），波纹效应就会给整个的经济体带来毁灭性的影响。 - And it likely had a ripple effect by not worsening the condition of frail patients who ultimately died of something else, government health scientists said.
这也可能产生一个连锁效应，使最终死于其它疾病的体质虚弱病人的病情不致因流感而恶化，政府卫生科学家说。 - Then it was like this ripple effect of people not wanting to be sick and wanting inexpensive products that looked good and worked well.
人们不希望得病，同时还希望买到既便宜、又美观而且实用的产品，但很难买到，这就像连锁反应。