新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

effect

英  [ɪˈfekt]
    

[NOUN, VERB]

    NOUN. 名词
  • effects

    1[C, U 有变体名词] 影响

    The effect of one thing on another is the change that the first thing causes in the second thing.

    近义词

    influence , impact

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

    例:

    The internet has had a significant effect on trade.

    互联网已经对贸易产生了重大的影响。

    例:

    The housing market is feeling the effects of the increase in interest rates.

    房地产市场正受利率上升的影响。

    例:

    Even minor head injuries can cause long-lasting psychological effects.

    即使轻微的头部损伤也能产生长期的精神上的影响。

    2[C 可数名词] 印象

    An effect is an impression that someone creates deliberately, for example in a place or in a piece of writing.

    近义词

    impression

    双语例句

    例:

    The whole effect is cool, light, and airy.

    整体印象是凉爽、明亮和通风。

    3[PL 复数] 个人财物

    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.

    近义词

    possessions

    双语例句

    例:

    His daughters were collecting his effects.

    他的女儿们正在收集他的个人物品。

    4[PL 复数] (影片中音响或布景的)特殊效果

    The effects in a film are the specially created sounds and scenery.

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

    PHRASE. 习语
  • for effect

    1为了加深印象 , 为了引人注目

    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.

    双语例句

    例:

    The southern accent was put on for effect.

    故意装出南方口音以引人注意。

  • in effect

    1实际上

    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.

    近义词

    effectively

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

  • put something into effect , bring something into effect , carry something into effect

    1实施

    If you put, bring, or carry a plan or idea into effect, you cause it to happen in practice.

    近义词

    implement

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

  • take effect , come into effect

    1实施 , 生效

    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.

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

  • take effect

    1见效

    You can say that something takes effect when it starts to produce the results that are intended.

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

  • to good effect , to no effect

    1有(无)效地

    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.

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

  • to this effect , to that effect

    1大意是

    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.

    双语例句

    例:

    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一份大意如此的通告。

    VERB. 动词
  • effects , effecting , effected

    1[T 及物动词] 实现

    If you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you succeed in causing it to happen.

    双语例句

    例:

    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。

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