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
- For example, if conditions in the international oil markets result in an increase in the price of crude oil, there could be a ripple effect.
例如，国际石油市场环境的变化可能导致原油价格的上涨，这亦会引发连锁反应。 - 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。 - 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。 - Not only has local wildlife suffered, including the extinction of highly insular species, but a ripple effect has impacted migratory birds worldwide.
不但本土野生动植物遭受创伤（包括高地海岛物种的消失），而且还波及到了世界范围内的迁徙鸟类。 - That is not only bad news for a country struggling to stimulate growth, it also threatens a ripple effect around the world: cheap made-in-China goods contained price rises around the world when that was a force for good.
这不仅对于一个正绞尽脑汁刺激增长的国家是个坏消息，其涟漪效应还可能波及全世界：廉价的中国制造商品曾在世界各地遏制价格上涨，起到有益的作用。 - Now that the brakes are coming on in China, however, a ripple effect is inevitable as demand for oil, iron ore and all the other commodities required to industrialise the country shrinks.
不过，既然现在中国也开始“刹车”，随着中国工业化所需的石油、铁矿石以及其它所有大宗商品的需求收缩，涟漪效应是不可避免的。 - While Beijing has been trying to rein in sky-high property prices, a China property slump would have a big ripple effect on the global economy.
尽管北京方面一直在试图遏制高涨的房价，但如果中国房地产业陷入萧条，将对全球经济产生巨大的涟漪效应。 - 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。 - 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。 - After sending shockwaves through financial markets this summer, the Fed came under international pressure to communicate more clearly, but its mandate to focus on US jobs and inflation means it does not consider the overseas ripple effect of its decisions.
今年夏天通过金融市场释放冲击波之后，美联储面临国际压力，要求其更加清晰地传递信息，但美联储聚焦于美国就业和通胀的使命意味着，它在决策过程中不会考虑海外连锁效应。