🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

事件链

Pronunciation / Transliteration: shìjiàn liàn

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Chain of events/tʃeɪn əv ɪˈvɛnts/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这一决定引发了一连串的事件。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A series of related occurrences or happenings in which each event is a direct consequence of the preceding one.

    "A simple misunderstanding triggered a disastrous chain of events that ruined the entire project."
  2. 2

    A sequence of historical or accidental incidents leading up to a specific outcome.

    "Investigators are trying to piece together the exact chain of events leading to the accident."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The phrase combines the Middle English 'chaine' (derived from Latin 'catena', meaning a series of connected links) with the noun 'event' (from Latin 'evenire', meaning to come out or happen). Together, the idiom emerged in early modern English discourse to metaphorically describe sequential causality as an unbroken physical or logical linkage of occurrences.

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