🇨🇳Chinese Source WordCode: ZH

预期的效果

Pronunciation / Transliteration: yùqī de xiàoguǒ

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Desired effect/dɪˈzaɪərd ɪˈfɛkt/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇨🇳 Example Sentence in Chinese:

"这项措施没有达到预期的效果。"

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    The intended outcome, result, or impact that was planned or hoped for from a specific action, policy, or treatment.

    "The new marketing campaign failed to produce the desired effect on quarterly sales."
  2. 2

    The specific functional consequence aimed at in a technical, medical, or artistic process.

    "The medication was adjusted to ensure it achieved the desired effect without severe side effects."

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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

The term combines 'desired', derived from the Latin 'desiderare' (to long for, regret the absence of), and 'effect', originating from the Latin 'effectus' (accomplishment, performance), stemming from 'efficere' (to work out, bring about). Together as a standard collocation, it emerged in modern English contexts referring to intended outcomes or goals achieved through a specific action.

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