after-effect
后效,后效应,后遗症,后果
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Definitions
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- : a delayed effect; an effect that follows at some interval after the stimulus that produces it.
- : Medicine/Medical. a result appearing after the first effect due to an agent, usually a drug, has gone.
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In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
But they say its effect on the regular daily operation of organized crime has been negligible.
All of these increased barriers then have a snowball effect.
So now the company is asking the FCC to, in effect, reverse itself.
A revised version of the law goes into effect on January 1st, 2015.
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.
And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
She stabbed him, noting the effect upon him with a detached interest that seemed indifferent to his pain.