Public demands for action led the governments of fifteen states to pass anti-trust laws.

VOA: special.2010.06.03

All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

One hopes there is still time for countries to see this coming and take preventive action.

有人希望国家还有时间,来发现问题并采取预防措施

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

"And it brings Security Council agreement on a broad framework for action to reduce nuclear dangers as we work toward that goal."

VOA: standard.2009.09.24

In the brain, action potentials are moving down processes, down a single cell process for example.

在大脑中 动作电位沿突起传递,比如说沿着一条单独的细胞突起吧

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Max Baucus heads the Senate Finance Committee "The time has come for action and we will act.

VOA: standard.2009.09.09

We don't have a documentary showing Peter the Great in action, for obvious reasons.

当然了,我们没有任何,我们没有任何彼得大帝的影像资料

耶鲁公开课 - 欧洲文明课程节选

Now is the season for action,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.28

We tend to look at human behavior as a matter of providing rational incentives for human action while most people, in fact, are driven by a need for esteem and a desire to avoid humiliation.

通常，我们倾向于以理性地分析其动机为标准,来看待人的行为是否正确合理,而其他人则是以赢得自尊和避免羞辱为标准,来判断一个人的行为是否合理。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

Now is the season for action. Now is when we must bring the best ideas of both parties together and show the American people that we can still do what we were sent here to do.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Here are a few laws that express the idea that the experience of slavery and liberation should be the wellspring for moral action. It should be the impetus for moral action. Exodus 22:20: "You shall not wrong a stranger or oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."

这里有几条法律可以说明奴隶制和解放的历史经历,应该是道德行为的源泉，它应该是,道德行为的动力，《出埃及记》第22章21节提到，“不可亏负,寄居的，也不可欺压他，因为你们在埃及地也作过寄居的“

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

"As far as I can tell, everything remains on track for action to be taken with regards to the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility according to the timeline proscribed by the president in the executive order."

VOA: standard.2009.05.20

But we also know there needs to be space for other conversations. In fact I think many of the conversations are that they have started on the community action trip that they might take as they enter freshman year or the outdoor action trip or other informal ways of making connections.

但是，我们也知道，他们也需要,进行其他对话的空间，实际上,我认为这些对话发生在很多活动中,比如说，学生们在大一时可能参加的,一些社区活动,或者是一些课外旅行,或者是其他一些娱乐交流活动。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

Ida Tarbell's investigations into Standard Oil were partly responsible for later legal action by the federal government against the company.

VOA: special.2010.04.25

It's collecting information from all these dendrites under the right series of signals the cell body integrates all that information, says time for me to fire an action potential.

神经收集所有树突送来的,通过一系列正确信号传来的信息,细胞体整合所有信息之后,就到了发出动作电位的时候了

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

He had warned of the threat of such weapons as he argued for military action to remove Saddam Hussein from power.

VOA: special.2009.01.17

Well, the mechanism that the cell uses to transmit information along itself, along this process which goes from my brain to my fingers, for example, is through an electrical signal called an action potential.

神经细胞沿突起,将信息从我的大脑传递到,手指的机制是,举例来说,是通过一种称为动作电位的电信号的作用

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Since the nineteen forties, the traditional place for political speech by American unions and companies has been through political action committees.

VOA: special.2010.03.12

It would generate an electrical signal because it would - you'd open the ion channel and you would ion fluxes and you would change the membrane potential in just the way I described for the action potential.

它会产生一个电信号,因为--,离子通道会打开,产生离子流,膜电位会改变,像我讲动作电位时那样

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

Experts at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development estimated that the action cost Egypt's economy at least ninety million dollars.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

So, there's a continuum of electrical connection in the heart that allows an action potential to sweep across the surface of the heart and for the heart to beat in a coordinated fashion.

所以 心脏细胞有电偶联的连结组织,以使动作电位平稳在细胞表面传递,保证心脏的协调性跳动

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

The woman of action was ordered to remain quiet for months in a dark room, or become blind.

VOA: special.2009.07.26

But Barack Obama warns that without decisive action, trillion-dollar deficits will be a reality for years to come.

VOA: special.2009.01.09

This expression makes the person left holding the bag responsible for an action, often a crime or misdeed.

VOA: special.2009.01.25

In two thousand one, a group of women took legal action against the company for sex discrimination.

VOA: special.2009.07.17

During the early nineteen fifties, he also became known for social action as well as property development.

VOA: special.2011.01.30

He was called a hero for taking this kind of personal action to support the farm workers.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

She may also face opposition for an action she took while dean of Harvard Law School.

VOA: special.2010.05.15

But the secretary called for aggressive action, saying there was more risk in taking small steps.

VOA: special.2009.02.13

However,he says they will make it possible for patients to simply think of the action they wish to perform and do it with prosthetics.

VOA: special.2009.03.10