大学英语：Meaningfulness affects memory at all levels

affect 是动词，意思是“影响”。常常会有一些英语学习者把动词affect和名词effect混淆，请注意下面的句子：

　　1) The drought would surely affect the harvest.(这场干旱肯定会影响到收成。)

　　2) Excessive smoking affected his health， bad coughs often made it difficult to breathe.(过度吸烟影响了他的健康，严重的咳嗽使他难以呼吸。)

　　3) Psychologists believe that colors have a definite effect on people.(心理学家认为颜色对人肯定有影响。)

　　4) We could all see the effects of the illness on him.(我们都能看出那场病在的身上的影响。)

　　5) 职务的变化使他的收入大受影响。(The change in position greatly affected his income.)

　　6) 他的话对听众没有任何影响作用。(What he said had little effect on the audience.)