单词chain-reaction
na.: 【核】连锁反应
链（式）反应:
a chemical or nuclear change that forms products which themselves cause more changes and new products
（事情的）连锁反应:
a series of events, each of which causes the next
【原子能】连锁反应,链式反应
The problem was to find out how, if it was possible at all, to produce a chain reaction.
问题是要弄清楚：如果连锁反应却有可能，怎样才能制造出连锁反应。
The bursting of that bubble set off the chain reaction of financial implosions that we are experiencing at the moment.
泡沫破裂引起了一连串金融危机的爆发，这就是我们现在所经受的。
This can be a chain reaction, with the volunteer team then feeling more empowered to go a step further with its own charity efforts.
这是一系列连锁反应，然后志愿者队伍感觉更有影响力，进一步提高了自己的慈善工作。
The number of defaults required to set off such a chain reaction was a vexing unknown.
要引发这样一个连锁反应的违约数量是个让人恼火的未知数。
When the heat joined, it would have been a series of chain reaction, with an obvious ignited.
当有热量加入的时候，它就会发生一系列连锁反应，并出现明显的点燃现象。
It was the start of a chain reaction that this summer unleashed a fierce backlash from regulators and local banks.
此后出现了一系列连锁反应，到了今年夏天，中国监管机构和本土银行发出了强烈的反弹。
As the chain reaction has been halted, the residual fuel should cool down to safe levels even without cooling sea water within a few days.
核裂变会停止，在没有海水的冷却下，几天后残留的燃料会降温的安全线下。
Then they touch the first domino in the row, and all the other dominoes fall down in a chain reaction, one after another.
然后他们推倒第一个多米诺骨牌，所有的多米诺骨牌会因为连锁反应而倒下，一个接着一个。
Kyp launched the Sun Crusher"s resonance torpedoes into Carida"s sun, triggering a chain reaction that would destroy the system.
他向卡里达的恒星发射了“灭日者”的共振鱼雷，引发了摧毁这个星系的连锁反应。
We don"t want to set off the chain reaction, so we are being observant at the moment waiting for Earth to react at a rupture point.
我们不希望引起连锁反应，所以我们不断观测地球等待她对断裂点做出反应。