| 单词 | effect |
| 释义 | ef·fect I. 1. < low mortality, the effect of excellent social services available in every village — William Petersen > < as tolerance develops, the addict needs more and more of the drug to give him the same effect he originally obtained from a small dose — D.W.Maurer & V.H.Vogel > < his feet in the most appalling state from the effects of porcupine quills — James Stevenson-Hamilton > 2. a. < as a boy he had gone to work early to the effect that he might help out his parents > b. < employed his knowledge to little effect in the development of his organization > 3. < the sky effects by day and night are grander — Wilfrid Eggleston > 4. obsolete 5. obsolete 6. < the guilder became in effect convertible with other currencies in free Continental Europe — Alan Valentine > 7. < the effect of wind in changing tide levels — Geographical Review > < the effect of great demand upon supply > < all of the children in the schoolroom felt the effect of her happiness — Sherwood Anderson > 8. effects plural < her household effects were sold at auction but her clothing, jewelry, and other personal effects were given away > 9. a. < a concentration on detail at a cost to total effect — Irving Kolodin > < achieves amazing effects with his woodcuts — José Gómez-Siere > < decorated in yellow, which increased the effect of lightness — Sheila Kaye-Smith > also < her sobs were purely for effect > b. < never have we been so bombarded with trick effects — 3-D, cinemascope, panoramic screens — John Baker > < the technique of sound effects was extremely limited and used only … for such things as doorbells — Richard Hubbell > 10. < the subcommittee's recommendations were quickly given effect — W.R.Langdon > < the court will not give effect to a judgment based on unfair proceedings > specifically < a commission was set up to carry the new proposals into effect > < the agreement will have to be approved by a majority before it can go into effect > < the same excises and corporate tax rates that are now in effect — William Fellner > — compare take effect at take 11. 12. < Faraday effect > 13. Synonyms: < the effect of the medicine was an intermittent dizziness > < the effect of the speech was immediate governmental reform > < tanning is the effect of exposure to sunlight > < the effects of the hurricane were visible in roofless houses and uprooted trees > result, close to effect in meaning, implies a direct relationship with an antecedent action or condition though possibly less direct than effect, usually suggesting an effect in the character of a termination of the operation of a cause, and applying more commonly than effect to tangible objects < the result of the investigation was a scandalous exposure of corruption > < his limp was the result of an automobile accident > < the result of the marriage was a family of seven children > < the subsiding flood or surface waters cause mineral deposits and the result is a mound — Alice Duncan-Kemp > consequence may suggest a direct but looser or more remote connection with a cause than either effect or result, usually implying an adverse or calamitous effect and often suggesting a chain of intermediate causes or a complexity of effect < one of the consequences of his ill-advised conduct was a loss of prestige > < his poor health is a consequence of early privation > < both good and bad consequences can follow upon the acquisition of much leisure > upshot often implies a climax or conclusion in a series of consequent occurrences, or the most conclusive point of a single complex gradual consequence < we spent the time swimming at Glenelg and dancing at the Palais Royal in the city. The upshot was that, before we left … we were engaged — Rex Ingamells > < they won the battle, and the upshot was a short-lived bourgeois republic — Roy Lewis & Angus Maude > < the upshot of the whole matter was that there was no wedding — Padraic Colum > aftereffect and aftermath both usually designate secondary rather than direct or immediate effects. aftereffect besides designating a secondary effect sometimes suggests a side effect but more generally implies an effect ascribable to a previous effect that has become a cause < the aftereffects of an atomic-bomb explosion — Current Biography > < although the pioneer effort had reached a dead end, its aftereffects were all too apparent — Dayton Kohler > < to the left of the highway the blackened appearance is the aftereffect of a fire that has recently swept across the flat — G.R.Stewart > < the aftereffects of the war were a general disorder and confusion > aftermath, often suggesting a more complex effect or generalized condition than aftereffect, usually carries the notion of belated consequences that appear after the effects, especially disastrous effects, seem to have passed < the serious dislocations in the world as an aftermath of war — U.S. Code > < the aftermath of the epidemic in Memphis was worse than the dismal days of Reconstruction — American Guide Series: Tennessee > < asbestos dust has the same effect as silica, the resulting disease being known as “asbestosis”, with pulmonary tuberculosis as the aftermath — V.M.Ehlers & E.W.Steel > sequel is usually used to signify a result that follows after an interval < spinal curvature … may be a symptom or a sequel to many different diseases — Morris Fishbein > < she lay rigid experiencing the sequel to the pain, an ideal terror — Jean Stafford > issue, the way something, for example an argument, comes out, carries strongly the notion of result as a solution or resolution < a contest of wits between the criminal and the police — usually aided in fiction by a quicker-witted private detective — a contest in which the issue is still the greatest and gravest of all, life or death — A.C.Ward > < the war was by then obviously proceeding toward a successful issue — F.M.Ford > outcome, interchangeable with result or with issue, possibly carries the notion of less finality than does issue < the outcome of the presidential election > < the enduring organisms are now the outcome of evolution — A.N.Whitehead > < one outcome of this report was the formation of the Southern Conference for Human Welfare — Current Biography > < his book is the outcome of two years' travels in India, China, and Siam — Geographical Journal > event, rare and somewhat archaic in the sense pertinent here, of outcomeor result, usually carries the notion of an unpredictable or unforeseeable outcome < the happiness of Rome appeared to hang on the event of a race — Edward Gibbon > < he employed himself at Edinburgh till the event of the conflict between the court and the Whigs was no longer doubtful — T.B.Macaulay > < the calm assumption that I should live long enough to carry out my extensive plan at leisure … has in the event been justified — Havelock Ellis > • - in effect - to the effect II. 1. < specific genes effect specific bodily characters > 2. a. < passage could be effected only by way of certain transverse valleys and high passes — W.G.East > < the Romans who, with superb political skill, effected the unification of Italy — Benjamin Farrington > < minor repairs to the road were effected during the summer > — compare affect III 1 b. < consistently taken the position that the function of the president is to effect the public will — R.H.Rovere > Synonyms: see perform |
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