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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）
• 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。
• 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。
• 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）。