A：When can you effect shipment? I'm terribly worried about late shipment.
      你们什么时候能交货？我非常担心货物迟交。

B：We can effect shipment in December or early next year at the latest.
      我们最晚在今年十二月或明年初交货。

A：That's fine.
      好。

1. 影响;效果;结果
    The effect of one thing on another is the change that the first thing causes in the second thing.

effect的解释

    e.g. Parents worry about the effect of music on their adolescent's behavior...
           父母担心音乐对青春期孩子的行为所产生的影响。
    e.g. The austerity measures will have little immediate adverse effect on the average Moroccan...
           财政紧缩政策不会对普通的摩洛哥人产生直接的负面影响。

2. （刻意制造的）效果，印象
    An effect is an impression that someone creates deliberately, for example in a place or in a piece of writing.

    e.g. The whole effect is cool, light and airy.
           整体效果很酷，轻松而随意。

3. 所有物;财产;遗物
    A person's effects are the things that they have with them at a particular time, for example when they are arrested or admitted to hospital, or the things that they owned when they died.

effect在线翻译

    e.g. His daughters were collecting his effects.
           他的女儿们当时正在整理他的遗物。

4. （电影）特效，特技
    The effects in a film are the specially created sounds and scenery.

5. 使发生;实现
    If you effect something that you are trying to achieve, you succeed in causing it to happen.

    e.g. Prospects for effecting real political change seemed to have taken a major step backwards.
           实现真正政治变革的机会似乎变得更加渺茫了。

6. see also: greenhouse effect;placebo effect;ripple effect;side-effect;sound effect;special effect

7. 为了给人印象;为了吸引注意力
    If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves.

    e.g. Jock paused for effect, his eyes glinting over his glass as he took another drink...
           乔克为了制造效果停下来又喝了口酒，他的眼睛在酒杯上方光芒闪烁。
    e.g. The Cockney accent was put on for effect.
           这伦敦腔是为了给人以深刻印象而故意装出来的。

8. 其实;实际上
    You add in effect to a statement or opinion that is not precisely accurate, but which you feel is a reasonable description or summary of a particular situation.

    e.g. That deal would create, in effect, the world's biggest airline.
           事实上，这一协议将促成世界最大航空公司的成立。

9. 实施（计划）;实现（想法）
    If you put ,bring, or carry a plan or idea into effect, you cause it to happen in practice.

effect的反义词

    e.g. These and other such measures ought to have been put into effect in 1985.
           这些以及其他类似的措施在1985年就应该开始实施了。
    e.g. ...a decree bringing into effect the political reforms adopted last month.
           上个月正式通过的实施政治改革的法令

10. 开始实施/生效/有效
      If a law or policy takes effect or comes into effect at a particular time, it officially begins to apply or be valid from that time. If it remains in effect, it still applies or is still valid.

      e.g. ...the ban on new logging permits which will take effect from July...
             将于7月生效的禁止颁发新伐木许可证的禁令
      e.g. The decision was taken yesterday and will remain in effect until further government instructions.
             该决定于昨天作出，在政府未有进一步指示前将一直有效。

11. 见效;开始起作用
      You can say that something takes effect when it starts to produce the results that are intended.

      e.g. The second injection should only have been given once the first drug had taken effect...
             只有第一剂药见效后才可进行第二次注射。
      e.g. International sanctions were beginning to take effect.
             国际制裁开始起作用了。

12. 产生良好效果/毫无成效
      You use effect in expressions such as to good effect and to no effect in order to indicate how successful or impressive an action is.

      e.g. Mr Morris feels the museum is using advertising to good effect...
             莫里斯先生认为博物馆作的广告卓有成效。
      e.g. Mr Charles complained, to no effect.
             查尔斯先生投诉无果。

13. 大意是;大致是
      You use to this effect ,to that effect, or to the effect that to indicate that you have given or are giving a summary of something that was said or written, and not the actual words used.

      e.g. A circular to this effect will be issued in the next few weeks...
             接下来的几周内将发布一份大意如此的通告。
      e.g. Legislation to that effect created fierce controversy both in Parliament and outside...
             那类立法在议会内外都引起了激烈的争论。

14. 立即生效/自…起生效
      If you say that something will happen with immediate effect or with effect from a particular time, you mean that it will begin to apply or be valid immediately or from the stated time.

      e.g. We are now resuming relations with Syria with immediate effect...
             我们即刻起与叙利亚恢复关系。
      e.g. The price of the Saturday edition is going up with effect from 3 November.
             自11月3日起，周六版价格将上调。

15. cause and effect -> see cause