impact CET4 TEM4 ( impacting, impacted, impacts )

名词读作ˈɪmpækt。动词读作ɪmˈpækt或ˈɪmpækt。

• 1. 

  N-COUNT The impact that something has on a situation, process, or person is a sudden and powerful effect that it has on them. 影响

  例：

  They say they expect the meeting to have a marked impact on the future of the country.

  他们说期望这次会议对国家的未来产生显著的影响。

• 2. 

  N-VAR An impact is the action of one object hitting another, or the force with which one object hits another. 撞击; 撞击力

  例：

  The plane is destroyed, a complete wreck: the pilot must have died on impact.

  飞机被毁，完全成了一堆残骸：飞行员一定在撞击中丧生了。

• 3. 

  V-T/V-I To impact a situation, process, or person means to affect them. 对…造成影响; 产生影响

  例：

  Such schemes mean little unless they impact people.

  除非能对人们造成影响，否则这样的计划意义不大。

• 4. 

  V-T/V-I If one object impacts on another, it hits it with great force. 撞击 [正式]

  例：

  ...the sharp tinkle of metal impacting on stone.

  …金属撞击石头的刺耳叮当声。