repercussion
回响,反响,回报,打击
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Definitions
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- : an effect or result, often indirect or remote, of some event or action: The repercussions of the quarrel were widespread.
- : the state of being driven back by a resisting body.
- : a rebounding or recoil of something after impact.
- : reverberation; echo.
- : Music. the point after the development of an episode at which the subject and answer appear again.
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Examples
Worse, these women are often deterred from reporting such abuses, due to personal threats, fears of professional repercussions, and the likelihood that those who could help them seek recourse will not believe them.
Disney probably understands the consequences of failing to think about the repercussions of efforts to build its audience in China better than anyone.
In San Diego, tourism-related businesses are taking a tremendous hit, and it is likely there will be ongoing repercussions long after restrictions are lifted.
The Madden-Julian Oscillation is a pattern of storms that usually forms several times a year in tropical latitudes and can have weather repercussions around the globe.
The fact that a “no match” from a human investigator can overturn a wrong machine identification should be reassuring, but that came too late to save Williams from false arrest and its repercussions.
The proposed law would allow men to abuse their wives, children, and sisters without threat of judicial repercussion.
But we can't live in a world where citizens are allowed to do what he's done without repercussion.
Anything done to the Double acts by repercussion upon the physical body.
They're the most curious scars in the world, these scars transferred by repercussion from an injured Double.
When the air around was no longer shaken by constant repercussion, Bobby fell asleep.
This is a specimen of the "repercussion" stories, in which the wound inflicted on the wer-animal appears in the human form.