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
- 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。 - 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) - 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。 - Tightly coupled services tend to cause a ripple effect in the system, as one change cascades to require another change.
紧密耦合服务趋向于在系统中带来连锁效应,因为一个更改可能会导致需要实现另一个更改。 - Both China and Japan are important sources of semi-manufactured goods in Asia, Zhang said, adding that the ripple effect will spread and put pressure on the world economy.
中国和日本是亚洲半成品的重要来源,张茉楠补充说,涟漪效应会扩散,并对世界经济造成压力。 - 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。 - Decoupled data keeps a change in the database schema from causing a ripple effect of changes in workflow logic and the user interface.
降低数据的耦合度可以防止数据库模式的变化,这会导致业务逻辑和用户界面发生巨大的变化。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。