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

• 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。
• 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。
• Many Chinese exporters are starting to hoard the dollars they earn, betting that the yuan is unlikely to appreciate much more, a shift in strategy that is having a ripple effect throughout the country's financial system.
  中国很多出口企业预计人民币不太可能再大幅升值，因此开始囤积它们的美元收入。这种策略正在对全国金融系统产生连带影响。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• 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）
• 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。