2019-08-25 implication

英英释义：a possible future effect or result of an action, event, decision etc 

“implication”是可数名词，很常见的意思是“可能的影响或后果”。当我们想表达某个行为或事件可能会造成的结果或影响时，就可以使用这个词，还可以用它来替换 consequence 和 effect 等词。

需要注意：implication 表示这个意思时一般都用复数。

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1. The trade war between China and the US has serious implications for importers and exporters in the two countries. 

2. Who will be elected US president in 2020 will have profound implications for America. 

3. Brexit is likely to have far-reaching implications for the UK and even Europe as a whole. 

4. In recent days heatwaves have turned swathes of America and Europe into furnaces. Despite the accompanying blast of headlines, the implications of such extreme heat are often overlooked or underplayed. 

5. Americans are increasingly favouring pickup trucks and sports-utility vehicles, gas guzzlers eschewed by much of the rest of the world. This has big implications. 

6. Science fiction, a second realm of speculation, is perhaps a more familiar beach read. It is wrong to see sci-fi as chiefly predictive, however. Its contemplation of the future is often a commentary on the present: many sci-fi authors take current concerns, from robots to climate chaos to gender politics, to the logical extremes and consider their implications.

practice

油价上升可以对汽车业和交通产生实际的影响。

The rising oil price will have tangent implications for the automobile industry and transportation.

参考翻译：Oil price rises can have practical implications for the car industry and transportation.