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Dominoes is an old game. DOMINO EFFECT
多米诺骨牌是一种古老的游戏。多米诺骨牌效应
So, is this what happens after you play dominoes for too long?
所以，多米诺骨牌效应就是你玩了很长时间多米诺骨牌之后的反应么？
So, I'm going to China next month. How was your trip there?
下个月我就要去中国了。你上次去中国的旅行怎么样啊？
Difficult. I missed my flight in Los Angeles
太艰难了。我错过了洛杉矶的飞机，
which made me miss my connecting flight in Hong Kong which made me miss my train in Shanghai.
这就导致我错过了香港转机的航班，最后我又错过了上海的火车。

Wow! That is quite the domino effect.
哇！这真的是多米诺骨牌效应。
It was an international domino effect.
这是国际版的多米诺骨牌效应。
Dominoes is a game. But people also use the tiles in this way.
多米诺骨牌是一种游戏。但是人们也会这样使用骨牌。
They knock the first tile over, which knocks over the second, then the third, and so on.
他们碰倒第一枚骨牌，然后第一枚骨牌碰倒第二枚骨牌，然后依次碰倒第三枚以及后面的骨牌。
So, a "domino effect" is when one event causes a series of other things to happen.
所以，“多米诺骨牌效应”就是指一件事情引发一系列其他事情的发生。
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