"That's the wonderful thing about Earth Day is that it really provides a platform, an opportunity for grassroots organizations and community organizations to really focus on what's happening in their neighborhoods and their homes in their communities, in their businesses and to focus on the priority problems and to engage people maybe for the first time in taking environmental action."

VOA: special.2010.04.21

It was the first time a country had taken action on that, so these are very positive public health changes.

这是第一次国家政府对此采取措施,这都是些对大众健康很有益的改变

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

So in that sense, they should be the first to take action, no question.

所以从这一点来说，毫无疑问他们应该首先采取行动。

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It's not the first time CSPI has threatened legal action against junk food makers -- and the strategy has worked before.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

Well, I repeated my action because the first semester was rewarding."

我之所以还会回来上课,是因为第一学期对我来说是种奖励“

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He tells VOA tougher action must follow. "This is am important first step, but it is only a first step,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.09

The lady's refusal to drink of Comus' cup was just the first of Milton's attempts to bring the action of ingestion to the very center of a literary work.

拒绝司酒宴之神的杯子的女士,是弥尔顿第一次尝试把摄取食物的行动,注入到文学作品的中心去。

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Dieng says it is the first time that such a court decision has been put into action.

VOA: standard.2009.08.27

Fox,now 24, became a pop culture phenomenon after co-starring in the first two "Transformer" action films and says she is at home in genre.

VOA: standard.2010.06.20

Tbilisi says Moscow maintains a position that it has the right to first agree to any action another country wants to take in former-Soviet states such as Georgia.

VOA: standard.2010.07.05