ripple effect

英 [ˈrɪpl ɪfekt]

美 [ˈrɪpl ɪfekt]

n.  连锁反应

计算机

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
  1. 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。

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.
  1. 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。

双语例句

• 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。
• The increase in restructuring has had a ripple effect on these other speciality areas, because it's not all what you would call pure bankruptcy, Mr Davis says.
  戴维斯表示：重组业务的增加，给其它这些专业领域带来了连锁效应，因为这不全是所谓的单纯破产。
• And that good feeling has a ripple effect.
  而良好的感觉产生了链锁反应。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。