He said that would trigger a cascade of events in which Honduras would find itself thrown out of many components of the inter-American system.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

But of course food has this cascade of effects once it enters our body.

当然,一旦食物进入我们的身体,就会产生联动效应

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Then there's a cascade and then the theme comes back.

然后出现一连串音符,紧接着回归主题

耶鲁公开课 - 聆听音乐课程节选

A reaction performed by one enzyme creates a product that stimulates another enzyme that creates a product, and stimulates another enzyme, and through this cascade of reactions you amplify and carry the signal forward.

一种酶催化生成的产物会活化另一种酶,而它催化的产物又能激活其他酶,催化反应生成另一种产物,通过这层层反应,信号被放大,并不断向前传递

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

You can very quickly drive yourself nuts by sitting down, thinking, oh, I can write this program, no sweat, and then you write it and then there's a tiny little mistake here, but then there's a tiny little mistake here and here, and all of these stupid little things cascade until you try running your program, and the thing just doesn't work.

如果你只是仅仅干坐着，不费吹灰之力，凭空幻想着我可以把这个项目搞定，你会想地发疯的，也许你会写出一点东西出来，可能会有一点点错误,紧接着这或那又出现一点小错误，这些小错误一点一点地堆积了起来,直到你开始运行你整个项目，你会发现这堆东西根本就不工作。

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选