The superfluous action suggests that there was something more at stake, perhaps, than Saint Ebba's attempt to ward off sexual assault.

过多的行动表明，有比,圣人Ebba试图保护自己不受侵犯更有风险的东西。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

if developing countries do not take some action to reduce their trajectories,

如果发展中国家不行动起来减少排放的话，

全球变暖和发达国家 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The memory bank, in turn, activates the electronic circuits; the window closes, the door opens, hopefully the cat comes in, and the automatic telephone goes into action; right?

内存条，轮流地，激活电子电路，关闭窗子，打开门，希望猫进来，自动电话开始行动，对不？

哈佛公开课 - 计算机科学课程节选

We will debate equality and inequality, affirmative action, free speech versus hate speech, same-sex marriage, military conscription, a range of practical questions.

我们将讨论平等与不平等，平权行动，自由言论与攻击性言论，同性婚姻，兵役制等一系列现实问题。

耶鲁公开课 - 公正课程节选

All actions aim at preservation or change, at making something better or preventing it from becoming worse.

所有行动都是为了维持或者改变，为了让事物变得更美好,为了不让它变得糟糕。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

In the 1920s, a lot of bogus stuff was sold -a lot of people were cheated -so after the stock market crash of 1929, it led to a movement for regulation.

在上世纪20年代,很多不合规的股票流入市场,很多人受骗,所以1929年的股市大崩盘,促使政府采取了一系列加强金融监管的行动

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

I regard the last few weeks as politicians deciding we gotta do something to get this off the table of the agenda to something that has a political demand for it What they did, they could have done worse things, they could have done better things.

在我看来，一直到前几个星期,政治家们才觉得自己该做点什么了,不能继续把这件事束之高阁而迟迟不行动,而应当将其转化为一种政治诉求,至于他们所做的一切，已是既定事实，他们原本或许会做得更糟，但也有可能更好，这个很难讲。

斯坦福公开课 - 经济学课程节选

So if somebody comes along and says No,no,everybody dies alone, and dying as part of a joint undertaking is impossible, they're just saying something false.

如果有人说，不，大家都是孤独而死的，死亡作为共同行动是不可能的，他们就错了。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

Or don't take that action.

不建议做出某种行动的情况也是如此。

Why don't 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Does he not therefore as much accuse mankind by ?" his action as I do by my words?" You can see the mischievousness of Hobbes in that delightful passage. What about you, he says, and this is not in some kind of state of nature.

他在这些地方用行动攻击人类的程度,不正和我用文字攻击的程度相同吗,你们可以看出霍布斯在这一精彩段落里,的一丝顽皮，他说，你们怎么看呢，这和自然状态不同。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选