ramification
n.分枝, 分叉, 衍生物, 支流
A development or consequence growing out of and sometimes complicating a problem, plan, or statement:
结果：对有时复杂的问题、计划或陈述的发展或由其所造成的后果：
the ramifications of a court decision.
法庭决定的结果
international ramifications国际分支（化）国际后果
Macedonian Question(政治历史的欺骗):The so-called "Macedonian Question", is in fact a great political andhistorical fraud that was deliberately fabricated by the Communists in 1944 in order to wrest Greek Macedonia from Greece and absorb it into the Communist bloc, thus breaking up the West's eastern flank and gaining control of the north Aegean seacoast.