英汉词典

1. 影响;效果;结果
    The effect of one thing on another is the change that the first thing causes in the second thing.

effect的解释

    e.g. Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behavior...
           父母担心音乐对青春期孩子的行为所产生的影响。
    e.g. The austerity measures will have little immediate adverse effect on the average Moroccan...
           财政紧缩政策不会对普通的摩洛哥人产生直接的负面影响。

2. （刻意制造的）效果，印象
    An effect is an impression that someone creates deliberately, for example in a place or in a piece of writing.

    e.g. The whole effect is cool, light and airy.
           整体效果很酷，轻松而随意。

3. 所有物;财产;遗物
    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 hospital, or the things that they owned when they died.

effect在线翻译

    e.g. His daughters were collecting his effects.
           他的女儿们当时正在整理他的遗物。

4. （电影）特效，特技
    The effects in a film are the specially created sounds and scenery.

5. 使发生;实现
    If you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you succeed in causing it to happen.

    e.g. Prospects for effecting real political change seemed to have taken a major step backwards.
           实现真正政治变革的机会似乎变得更加渺茫了。

6. see also: greenhouse effect;placebo effect;ripple effect;side-effect;sound effect;special effect