Get your act together." Or,if the employer is calmer, he may say, "Let us get our act together."

VOA: special.2010.07.25

Present participles in general in Areopagitica being probably the most important form of speech, the act of gathering him may be more pleasurable, more desirable, than actually having him fully reconstituted.

大体上，现在分词在《论出版自由》中演讲的最,主要的时态形式，收集他的行为可能比,拥有真正再拼凑起的他更让人满足，更让人有欲望。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

You may think you've gotten away with something, but every act of social exploitation, every act of moral corruption, pollutes the sanctuary more and more until such time as God is driven out entirely and human society is devoured by its own viciousness and death-dealing.

犯了罪的人也许认为自己侥幸逃过一劫，然而他对所作的每一个行为，每一次的道德堕落，都会越来越玷污圣所,知道有一天上帝完全弃圣所而去,人类社会充斥着我们自身的邪恶和毁灭行为。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

They simply act like robots. In some cases, documents may have been falsified.

VOA: special.2010.10.22

The director may have said, "Calm down,now.Get your act together."

VOA: special.2010.07.25