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domino effect

多米诺骨牌效应,多米诺效应,多米尼克效应,多米諾骨牌效應

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the cumulative effect that results when one event precipitates a series of like events.

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Examples

  • At least 29 retailers in the US filed for bankruptcy in 2020, some of them for the second time, causing commercial real estate to suffer a domino effect from unpaid rents and store closures.

  • Gavin Newsom set off a domino effect at the tail end of 2020.

  • These steps toward separation could have ripple effects on the media companies distributing programming and generating revenue across the platforms, creating a domino effect of winners and losers.

  • In response, property owners along the southern part of Lanikai began installing seawalls to protect their homes, setting off a domino effect of beach loss down the coastline.

  • This is just one example of the domino effect that slower shipping speeds can have.

  • 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.