domino
domino 英 [ˈdɒmɪnəʊ] 美 [ˈdɑmənoʊ]
n. 多米诺骨牌；面具；化装外衣
名词复数:dominoes
- A domino is a small rectangular block used in the game dominoes. Each block has anywhere from 0 to 6 dots.
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- n. 多米诺骨牌；面具；化装外衣
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1. The crises, in the meantime, have investors looking around for the next domino to fall.
在此同时,这些危机促使投资者关注谁会成为下一个要倒下的多米诺骨牌.
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2. I found the newly secured freedoms almost unbelievable, but my colleagues not only knew it was for real, they also expected a domino effect soon would bring the crumbling of the entire Soviet bloc.
我们新获得的自由简直令我难以置信，而我的同事们不但知道它千真万确，而且期待着会很快发生多米诺骨牌效应，带来整个苏联集团的崩溃。
- domino (n.) 1801, from French domino (1771), perhaps (on comparison of the black tiles of the game) from the meaning "hood with a cloak worn by canons or priests" (1690s), from Latin dominus "lord, master" (from domus "house," from PIE root *dem- "house, household"), but the connection is not clear. Klein thinks it might be directly from dominus, "because he who has first disposed his pieces becomes 'the master.' " Metaphoric use in geopolitics is from April 1954, first used by U.S. President Eisenhower in a "New York Times" piece, in reference to what happens when you set up a row of dominos and knock the first one down.
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