"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

In each of these cases the figure who stands ab extra, from outside, is an observer, an observer looking in and interpreting the action before him and an observer in a position presumably to make some kind of moral judgment on the action taking place.

在每个例证中，处在明喻本身之外的人，都是一个观察者，一个,向内展望并且解说他眼前的进展的观察人,一个似乎是要对发生的事情作出某些道德评论的观察人。

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Bernanke has been praised for taking aggressive action to prevent an economic catastrophe after last year's widespread problems in the financial industry.

VOA: standard.2009.08.25

Since the financial crisis began in the United States (in 2007), US officials are under pressure to assure their counterparts that they are taking decisive action to safeguard and repair the banking system.

VOA: standard.2009.04.24

"And every time I ask myself,as I do, these questions my answer is yes, we are taking the right action, the action that is necessary to safeguard both our country and promote security in the world,"

VOA: standard.2009.09.04