Her words had a magical effect on us.

她的话对我们有一种魔力般的作用。

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The crisis had a negative effect on trade.

这次危机对贸易产生了很坏的影响。

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Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.

外遇着实对婚姻有极具破坏性的影响。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Parents often wonder what effect thumb sucking or sucking on a pacifier might have on their baby's teeth.

VOA: special.2009.03.11

Milton has dug up a gem from the pages of The Iliad, and this gem has something like a Medusa effect on the poem or perhaps on us as readers. Time almost seems to stop when we begin appreciating this image solely on aesthetic grounds.

弥尔顿从《伊利亚特》中挖出了一块瑰宝，这块瑰宝对于诗或我们读者起得作用,如同美杜莎一样，在我们只欣赏着,精美绝伦的地面上的场景时，时间仿佛停止。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

But there's a lot of evidence that similarity, above and beyond proximity, has an effect on attractiveness and on liking.

但有很多证据表明，相似性，远不同于邻近性，前者会影响吸引和喜欢。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

You have to think this would have a massive effect on growth to think it would not have a big effect on borrowing and future debt.

BBC: Budget 2013: The domino theory of deficit reduction

Working with the geneticists' favourite animal, the fruit fly Drosophila, Dr Gibson has pinpointed a series of so-called cryptic variations that have no effect on a protein's structure, but can nevertheless, if the circumstances are right, have a significant effect on the individual they belong to.

ECONOMIST: Genetics gets more complicated

So the low prices have already had a drastic effect on a poor country like Mali.

BBC: South Africans cut their cloth