cause-and-effect
因果关系,因果,因果律,原因和效果
Definitions
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- : noting a relationship between actions or events such that one or more are the result of the other or others.
Examples
As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.
As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.
In Israel, however, a new law took effect January 1st that banned the use of underweight models.
But Cosby Truthers are applying their principles to the wrong cause.
But they say its effect on the regular daily operation of organized crime has been negligible.
In this case, I suspect, there was co-operant a strongly marked childish characteristic, the love of producing an effect.
He shrank, as from some one who inflicted pain as a child, unwittingly, to see what the effect would be.
And so this is why the clever performer cannot reproduce the effect of a speech of Demosthenes or Daniel Webster.
The well-known "cock and bull" stories of small children are inspired by this love of strong effect.
Whether they had ever, at different times, pleaded for or against the same cause, and cited precedents to prove contrary opinions?