effects
柯林斯词典
1. N-VAR The effect of one thing on another is the change that the first thing causes in the second thing. 影响
Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behaviour. 家长们担心音乐对于其青少年子女行为的影响。
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. 整体印象是凉爽、明亮和通风。
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. 个人财物[正式]
His daughters were collecting his effects. 他的女儿们正在收集他的个人物品。
4. N-PLURAL The effects in a film are the specially created sounds and scenery. (影片中音响或布景的) 特殊效果
It's got a gripping story, great acting, superb sets, and stunning effects. 电影有扣人心弦的故事情节、精湛的表演、绝妙的布景和惊人的特效。
5. V-T If you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you succeed in causing it to happen. 实现[正式]
Prospects for effecting real political change seemed to have taken a major step backwards. 实现真正政治变革的前景似乎暗淡了许多。
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. 为了加深印象; 为了引人注目
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. 实际上[含糊]
That deal would create, in effect, the world's biggest airline. 那笔交易实际上将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. 实施
These and other such measures ought to have been put into effect in 1985. 这些及其他此类措施本应于1985年付诸实施。
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. 实施; 生效
...the ban on new logging permits which will take effect in July. …将于7月生效的新伐木许可证禁止令。
11. PHRASE You can say that something takes effect when it starts to produce the results that are intended. 见效
The second injection should only have been given once the first drug had taken effect. 第2针本应只在第1针见效后才能注射。
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 (无) 效地
Mr. Morris feels the museum is using advertising to good effect. 莫里斯先生感到博物馆正在有效地利用广告。
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，接下来的几星期内将发布大意如此的传阅文件。
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