effects
柯林斯詞典
1. N-VAR The effect of one thing on another is the change that the first thing causes in the second thing. 影響
Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behaviour. 家長(zhǎng)們擔(dān)心音樂(lè)對(duì)于其青少年子女行為的影響。
2. N-COUNT An effect is an impression that someone creates deliberately, for example in a place or in a piece of writing. 印象
The whole effect is cool, light, and airy. 整體印象是涼爽、明亮和通風(fēng)。
3. N-PLURAL A person's effects are the things that they have with them at a particular time, for example when they are arrested or admitted to a hospital, or the things that they owned when they died. 個(gè)人財(cái)物[正式]
His daughters were collecting his effects. 他的女兒們正在收集他的個(gè)人物品。
4. N-PLURAL The effects in a film are the specially created sounds and scenery. (影片中音響或布景的) 特殊效果
It's got a gripping story, great acting, superb sets, and stunning effects. 電影有扣人心弦的故事情節(jié)、精湛的表演、絕妙的布景和驚人的特效。
5. V-T If you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you succeed in causing it to happen. 實(shí)現(xiàn)[正式]
Prospects for effecting real political change seemed to have taken a major step backwards. 實(shí)現(xiàn)真正政治變革的前景似乎暗淡了許多。
6. →see also greenhouse effect , side-effect , special effect
7. PHRASE If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves. 為了加深印象; 為了引人注目
The southern accent was put on for effect. 假操南方口音以引人注意。
8. PHRASE You add in effect to a statement or opinion that is not precisely accurate, but that you feel is a reasonable description or summary of a particular situation. 實(shí)際上[含糊]
That deal would create, in effect, the world's biggest airline. 那筆交易實(shí)際上將造就世界最大的航空公司。
9. PHRASE If you put, bring, or carry a plan or idea into effect, you cause it to happen in practice. 實(shí)施
These and other such measures ought to have been put into effect in 1985. 這些及其他此類(lèi)措施本應(yīng)于1985年付諸實(shí)施。
10. PHRASE If a law or policy takes effect or comes into effect at a particular time, it officially begins to apply or be valid from that time. If it remains in effect, it still applies or is still valid. 實(shí)施; 生效
...the ban on new logging permits which will take effect in July. …將于7月生效的新伐木許可證禁止令。
11. PHRASE You can say that something takes effect when it starts to produce the results that are intended. 見(jiàn)效
The second injection should only have been given once the first drug had taken effect. 第2針本應(yīng)只在第1針見(jiàn)效后才能注射。
12. PHRASE You use effect in expressions such as to good effect and to no effect in order to indicate how successful or impressive an action is. 有 (無(wú)) 效地
Mr. Morris feels the museum is using advertising to good effect. 莫里斯先生感到博物館正在有效地利用廣告。
13. PHRASE You use to this effect, to that effect, or to the effect that to indicate that you have given or are giving a summary of something that was said or written, and not the actual words used. 大意是
I understand that a circular to this effect will be issued in the next few weeks. 我得知，接下來(lái)的幾星期內(nèi)將發(fā)布大意如此的傳閱文件。
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