一分鐘英語 第187期:Domino Effect 多米諾骨牌效應

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Dominoes is an old game. DOMINO EFFECT

多米諾骨牌是一種古老的遊戲。多米諾骨牌效應

So, is this what happens after you play dominoes for too long?

所以，多米諾骨牌效應就是你玩了很長時間多米諾骨牌之後的反應麼？

So, I'm going to China next month. How was your trip there?

下個月我就要去中國了。你上次去中國的旅行怎麼樣啊？

Difficult. I missed my flight in Los Angeles

太艱難了。我錯過了洛杉磯的飛機，

which made me miss my connecting flight in Hong Kong which made me miss my train in Shanghai.

這就導致我錯過了香港轉機的航班，最後我又錯過了上海的火車。

Wow! That is quite the domino effect.

哇！這真的是多米諾骨牌效應。

It was an international domino effect.

這是國際版的多米諾骨牌效應。

Dominoes is a game. But people also use the tiles in this way.

多米諾骨牌是一種遊戲。但是人們也會這樣使用骨牌。

They knock the first tile over, which knocks over the second, then the third, and so on.

他們碰倒第一枚骨牌，然後第一枚骨牌碰倒第二枚骨牌，然後依次碰倒第三枚以及後面的骨牌。

So, a "domino effect" is when one event causes a series of other things to happen.

所以，“多米諾骨牌效應”就是指一件事情引發一系列其他事情的發生。

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