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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。