Wenger was angered that his team had been playing while their opponents on Saturday, Hull, were not in action due to Everton's Europa League commitments.

温格对于他的球队在周三打了比赛，而他周六的对手赫尔则休息感到不满，他们因为埃弗顿参加欧联杯而未打比赛。

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If a contestant injures himself while attempting to foul his opponent, the referee will not take any action in his favor.

如果参赛者在企图对对手犯规时弄伤了自己，裁判将不会采取对他有利的行动。

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These troops have rarely been at the center of the action: in Afghanistan, they stay in the relatively calm north; in Lebanon, they patrol at sea, not on land.

这些部队鲜少处于行动的中心：在阿富汗，他们留驻于相对平静的北方；在黎巴嫩，他们则在海上巡逻，而不是在陆地上。

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it takes effect in January. The new law may not go as far as some would like, but the action is historic.

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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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Poetry, in Frost, is action, not a matter, as Wordsworth would say, of emotion recollected in tranquility.

就像华兹华斯说的诗歌对于弗罗斯特是动作不是事情，不是冷静时收集的情绪。

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Northern Ireland are not in action in Group Six until 12 October when they go to Spain and look to avenge the defeat in April.

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Year upon year of slowing down the action in their heads, of training their brains to take the emotion out of the multiple thousands of split-second decisions they make every time they get in the car, tends to lend them a languid air when not in action.

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The key to creating a society with a sustainable ecological footprint is to be found not in individual action but in these sorts of redesigned systems.

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