ripple effect

短语

[计] 波动作用, 脉动效应

词形变化

ripple effects 复数 ripple effects

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.

    涟漪效应

    Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.

词源

An analogy to the spreading ripples on a body of water after an object has struck the surface.

来源：wiktionary