柯林斯英汉双解大词典
effect /ɪˈfɛkt/ CET4 TEM4 ( effecting, effected, effects )
1.N-VAR The effect of one thing on another is the change that the first thing causes in the second thing. 影响
2.N-COUNT An effect is an impression that someone creates deliberately, for example in a place or in a piece of writing. 印象
3.N-PLURAL 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. 个人财物 [正式]
4.N-PLURAL The effects in a film are the specially created sounds and scenery. (影片中音响或布景的) 特殊效果
5.V-T If you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you succeed in causing it to happen. 实现 [正式]
6. → see also greenhouse effect, side-effect, special effect
7.PHRASE 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. 为了加深印象; 为了引人注目