It is sabotage. It means to damage or destroy as an act of subversion against an organization or nation.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

The semiotician's answer to this is it never could have happened simply as an act of agency, as an act of will.

符号学者这样解释,这不是一己之力的结果。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

certainly to act as good attorneys in the future

将来成为好律师的能力，

不平等的入学基准 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

So, I said to myself, it would be a simple, harmless act to help him, as much as I could.

VOA: special.2009.01.03

I'm going to just give you two examples of the way Moses and God act as a check upon each other.

我会给大家举两个例子,就上帝和摩西克制对方脾气的例子。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

The bill,known as the Sherman Silver Purchase Act, would have the government buy four-and-one-half-million ounces of silver each month.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

Act for them, to them. Don't act as if they are just some bunch of Philistines out there who can't appreciate your art.

为他们表演，想他们表演，不要把它们当做俗气的人,所以不能欣赏你们的艺术。

耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选

The current version of the law, signed by George W.Bush eight years ago,is known as the No Child Left Behind Act.

VOA: special.2010.03.18

This of course brings us to the issue of "gaps" and the role that they play in the act of reading as Iser understands it.

这理所当然地把我们引到了“间隙“的问题上“,以及照伊瑟尔的理解,间隙在阅读中起到的作用。

耶鲁公开课 - 文学理论导论课程节选

As part of the agreement, Hayes promised not to act aggressively to support the civil rights of black southerners.

VOA: special.2010.03.11

And, it follows from him that political liberty means the freedom to act where the law is silent, as he says.

而他的政治自由意味着,我们可以在法律所认可的范畴内,享有充分的行动自由。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

But any attempt to send more men or supplies would be seen as an act of war civil war.

VOA: special.2009.07.30

You could think of this as the poem's first -- by no means its last - its first act of poetic disobedience.

我们可以把这当做这首诗第一次--绝不可能是最后一次,-这首诗第一次违背诗歌规律。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

There are some organizations in the United States that act as watchdogs, rating the financial health of charities.

VOA: special.2009.11.02

However, the question is, how do I choose to behave, to act as a result of it?

问题在于，我要选择怎样的行为，去表达情感？

哈佛公开课 - 幸福课课程节选

The government could also use violations of other federal laws such as the Clean Water Act to collect money for the spill.

VOA: special.2010.06.04

as we can think about something and then we can act on it.

与我们所做之间的联系。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The puppeteers train for many years to move as one in bringing the puppet to life to act in complex theater productions.

VOA: special.2009.09.23

And the act of working your way to it is known as shaping.

这种引导的行为被称为行为塑造。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

So he thinks it makes a lot of sense for today's barbers to act as "health care extenders" by sharpening their skills.

VOA: special.2010.10.27

And just as in that earlier poem the act of fishing is symbolically resonant "The Fisherman" is an image of man searching the depths of the world for the wisdom that hides beneath the surface of things.

和以前的事一样,也是有象征意味的,渔夫是一个探索世界的深邃,和隐藏在事物表面下的智慧,的一个人物形象。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

A measure known as the Dream Act would put these children of undocumented immigrants on a path toward citizenship instead of possible expulsion.

VOA: special.2010.09.30

That is a very important difference that was, you had to act in such a way as to make life possible and decent, and for the Greeks that always meant being part of a decent community, the polis.

这也是个非常重要的区别,你得活出体面来,对于古希腊人而言就是,成为体面的社区即城邦的一部分

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The Burma Road was a major route by which the United States was supplying China with munitions as part of the Lend-Lease Act.

VOA: special.2011.05.26

That's right. That's an example, as we talked about in the last class, of the act of keeping records influencing the accuracy of the records, because you're prone to do things differently then what your typical eating might be because you're keeping the records.

对,如我们上节课所谈到的,这有个持续记录会影响记录准确性的例子,由于你不断进行记录,你更可能会吃与不同于平时的东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

But,they feel that the best way to make this happen is to act as if they disapprove of any relationship between their two children.

VOA: special.2010.05.24

So it's going to be-- it's like one of the reality shows where things are going to be as they are and hopefully after a while we'll learn to act and behave normally and not worry about its presence.

因此,这就像...,就像某种真人秀节目,你在节目里要假装和平常一样,但愿过一段时间以后,我们能表现得很自然,完全忽略那部摄像机的存在

耶鲁公开课 - 基础物理课程节选

As a young performer, he had a song and dance act with partners for a while.

VOA: special.2009.03.09

Suppose instead, I want a machine that can take a recipe, the description of a sequence of steps, take that as its input, and then that machine will now act like what is described in that recipe.

假设换成这个，我想要一台可以安装描述，一系列步骤的结果的方法的机器，把那个当做输入设备，然后那台机器可以像方法中,描述的那样运行了。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Now, how they carry signals is that these neurotransmitters act as ligands.

它们传递信号的原理如下,神经递质作为一种配体

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选