Wenjer Leuschel (X) Oct 31, 2007:

@Jason: Yes, "影響所及，小型零售商和百貨公司備受影響" is of a bad writing style in Chinese. However, it may be understood as "As a result, the retail traders and the department stores suffer the most of the consequential impact."

Jason Ma Oct 30, 2007:

"...; 影响所及，... 备受影响." one of **影响** sounds bit of redundant to me.

Wenjer Leuschel (X) Oct 30, 2007:

與此同時 (At the same time, ...) and 影響所及 (As a result, ...) are such clichés which do not have much meaning than being construction elements of Chinese sentences.

Malcolm Mayfield (asker) Oct 30, 2007:

This is a similar usage:
與此同時， 隨著海外市場對產品價格日益重視， 量販店、 折扣店和專門優惠店 均大力擴展， 搶佔本土市場份額； 影響所及， 小型零售商和百貨公司備受影響 。

Denyce Seow Oct 29, 2007:

Can you give the sentence after the comma?

Malcolm Mayfield (asker) Oct 29, 2007:

Not sure how best to render this, e.g. whether to supply a verb: "The the repercussions (being what they are)"?