Some U.S.legislators are demanding answers about why Hasan's intercepted communications with the radical cleric did not prompt wider scrutiny of the psychiatrist's actions or intervention that could have prevented the attack.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Rarely does the narrator comment on or explain a character's actions or thoughts or motives. There's only the barest minimum of dialogue.

作者极少评价或解释一个人物的行为,或思想或动机，文章中只有不能再直白的对话。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Milton wants to create the illusion that he's predicting, or that he's prophesying, the actions recounted in the poem, as if Milton were prophesying what of course we know to be already past.

弥尔顿想给我们一种他在预言，诗中所叙之事的感觉，似乎他是在预言这些我们都知道已经发生了的事情。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

And when someone says your words or actions hit the nail on the head, he means what you said or did was exactly right.

VOA: special.2009.09.20

They're able to choose their actions in conformity with God's will or in defiance of God's will.

他们能够选择遵从上帝的意愿,也能违背上帝的意愿。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"We believe that neither party should engage in any kind of actions that could unilaterally preempt or appear to preempt negotiations.

VOA: standard.2009.11.17

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

She says the actions of the CNDP could well amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity.

VOA: standard.2009.09.12

Well, in Frost's case, as I'm suggesting, there's often very skillful and complex imitation going on between Frost's sounds and what he's imaging or describing or the actions and events in the poem.

对弗罗斯特的诗来说，像我所说的，有很多非常有技巧并且很复杂的仿照,在弗罗斯特的音律,和他所描绘的画面,或者诗里的行为和事件之间。

耶鲁公开课 - 现代诗歌课程节选

He says,to shore up its support within the Muslim Malay community, the government now has to support or at least tolerate more hardline actions on issues of race and religion.

VOA: standard.2010.02.24

What they want to do is expand the actions of the Fed, so that they're not--you can describe the Federal Reserve or any central bank, traditionally, as a banker's bank the Bank of England was the first central bank and it made banks keep deposits at the Bank of England.

他们想做的是扩大政府对经济的调控范围，这样政府就能将联邦储蓄,或者其他中央银行变成银行的银行,英国银行是第一个中央银行,他使其他银行将钱存放在它这里。

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选