汉英词典
Chinese-English Dictionary
MEANING OF 起作用
起作用
to have an effect / to play a role / to be operative / to work / to function
zuò yòng
EXAMPLE SENTENCES

这药显然起作用了。

The medicine has clearly done its stuff.

“旋风斩”现在能起作用了。

'Whirlwind Attack' should now be working.

现有的军事手段将开始起作用

The real existence of a military option will come into play.

这一切应该魔法般地起作用

All this was supposed to work like magic.

高度忠诚(或:赤胆忠心咒如何起作用?)

High Fidelity or: How does the Fidelius Charm work?

它在没有尽到孝道的地方起作用

It kicks in where filial responsibility fails.

服用蔗糖液是因为其似乎能起作用

Sucrose is given because it seems to work.

用加速的氘核来打击靶将不起作用

Accelerated beams of deuterons bombarding a target will not work.

格里菲斯教授解释了该药似乎是怎样起作用的。

Professor Griffiths explained how the drug appears to work.

我们可以用遗传工程技术将起作用的基因离析出来。

We can use genetic engineering techniques to isolate the gene that is responsible.