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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• That move, in turn, has had a ripple effect on lawyers 'salaries across the country.
  此举对全国的律师工资产生了连锁反应。