Effect

　　What you may think it means: To cause something to change.你以為單詞的含義是：引起某事發(fā)生變化。

　　What it really means: An event that causes a change.單詞的真正含義是：引起變化事件。

　　A lot of people staunchly defend the wrong definition of this and it's understandable. When action A causes a change in object B, action A affected object B and object B has been affected. Effect is an event that causes a change. In our prior example, action A is, in and of itself, an effect because it affects things. It’s admittedly confusing to explain but easy to remember. If it's a noun, it’s an effect. If it's a verb, it’s an affect.很多人是錯誤用法的擁躉者，這是可以理解的。當(dāng)行動A導(dǎo)致事物B發(fā)生變化，行動A影響了事物B，因此，事物B受到了影響。Effect其實是指引起變化的事件。在先前的例子中，行動A本身就是個effect(事件)，因為它影響了事物。不得不說，這么解釋起來很容易引起困惑，不過記起來卻不難。如果是名詞，那就是effect(事件);如果是動詞，那就是affect(影響)。