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

• 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。
• This method can be used to analyze the semantic relations in object-oriented program units by ripple effect analysis, and the control dependency and data dependency by use of system dependency graph.
  提出了把波动效应分析和系统依赖图结合起来进行切片的方法，通过波动效应分析反映面向对象程序中单元间的波动关系，基于系统依赖图切片侧重于分析控制依赖和数据依赖。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。
• 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。
• And that good feeling has a ripple effect.
  而良好的感觉产生了链锁反应。
• 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。