affect

英 [əˈfekt]

美 [əˈfekt]

例句：

Athletes and scientists have long known that meal timing affects performance. However, far less has been known about how meal timing and exercise might affect general health.

运动员和科学家早就知道进餐时间会影响表现。然而，人们对进餐时间和运动如何影响整体健康知之甚少。

——2020年高考江苏卷英语

It’s easy to put down grades — it’s only a letter after all. And for students, it shouldn’t mean anything more than just a letter, and it won’t affect your life that much in the overall scheme of things.

打分很容易，不过是写下一个字母而已。对于学生来说，它也仅仅就是一个字母。它对你生活的影响并不比其他方面明显。

——21-22学年《英语周报·高二阅读综合版》第12期

While many countries have their own specific national teachers’ day, UNESCO felt it necessary to observe the national issues that affect teachers from an international view.

虽然许多国家都有自己全国性的教师节，但联合国教科文组织认为有必要从国际角度观察影响教师的国家问题。

——21-22学年《英语周报·高三阅读综合版》第13期

基本释义

[verb]

to produce a change in somebody/something

[动词]

影响某人/某事

派生词

affecting adj. 深深打动人的；感动人的；

affection noun. 喜爱，钟爱；爱情；

同/近义词

influence: the effect that somebody/something has on the way a person thinks or behaves or on the way that something works or develops

modify: to change something slightly, especially in order to make it more suitable for a particular purpose

to completely change in appearance or character

语篇用例

“It is not that easy to match players with coaches. There are much more things to consider like the player’s technique and characteristics, the coach’s specialties, the harmonious relationship between them and so on, and frequently changing coaches can affect one’s performances very much,” Li Maimin, a table tennis expert, said.

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