This is not action that we wanted to take.

她说：“这并不是我们愿意采取的行动。

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“Action now, ” he declared. “Not action delayed.”

“开始行动，”陆克文宣布，“不得延误。”

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Mercury retrograde is a time of reflection, but not action.

水星逆行是沉思、考虑的时期，而不是行动的好时机。

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But its lack of action did not stop the rise of a labor organization that had been formed a few years earlier.

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But it's not because of some magical property in the fruit itself, but because of the action of disobedience itself.

但并不是因为苹果本身拥有的魔力，而是因为叛逆这一行为本身。

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As I said earlier, that's an action plan, I'm certainly not going to second guess there are many action plan.

就像我刚才所说，这是一个行动计划，我当然不会去质疑这项计划，虽然说我们已经有很多的行动，计划。

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Here as in the film, the emphasis is on characterization, not action, and while Enda Walsh, who wrote the book, has spelled out much of what was implied in John Carney's screenplay, he's done so in a way that is anything but heavy-handed.

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And people who covered that story say that after the arms embargo was instituted it took about a year for a no-fly zone to be instituted, another three years to get everybody to the peace table in Dayton, and that basically this was sort of a model of inaction, not action, by the international community.

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So the -- and in terms of participation, we think that is very important because of the signal it sends that this is not a Western action, not an American action, but an international action with the support of the governments and the people in the region.

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