ripple effect

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The circumstance in which one event instigates an expansive set of other events.
    — Defaults in America's mortgage lending businesses are causing a ripple effect through the major banks in other continents.

词形变化

词源

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