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

• It is important to watch for a ripple effect and carefully monitor any decisions to alter standards.
  监视连锁反应并且仔细监视任何改变标准的决定是重要的。
• 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。
• 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。
• The decisions of the Big Three catalyze market moves in often unpredictable ways, creating a strong ripple effect.
  这三大公司的决定往往会催化市场产生一些难以预料的波动，产生很大的涟漪效应。
• Talks between Barclays and ABN Amro will have a ripple effect in Europe as more financial institutions groups look at cross-border mergers.
  随着更多金融机构着眼于跨境并购，巴克莱（Barclays）和荷兰银行（ABNAMRO）之间的谈判将在欧洲造成连锁反应。
• Whatever the motivation for her suicide, the actress's death has raised fears about a ripple effect.
  无论什么动机致使崔真实自杀，对其死因的担忧引起了一系列的连锁反应。
• 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。
• 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。