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

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In the absence of that, the states have actually taken action, over the past, maybe 5, 10 years

在这种法律空缺的情况下，各个州在过去的五到十年间已经采取了行动，

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But packaged foods have labels, and this is made possible because of government action taken some years ago.

但包装食品的食品标签可以告诉我们这些,这得益于几年前的政府措施

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That's one line of interpretation So the very action that brought them a godlike awareness of their moral autonomy was an action that was taken in opposition to God.

那是一种解读,而这个行为,带给他们对自身道德控制力的神性意识,正是对上帝的违背。

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But no action has been taken on it.

但还没有付诸于实践。

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that the suggested action has already been taken and therefore you do not want to do it again.

已经发生过的行为，因此你已经不再想重复了。

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Sure. So the federal government has not taken a lot of action right now.

当然有。联邦政府现在采取的措施并不多。

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then action has needed to have been taken sooner,

那么必需更早采取行动，

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European governments have taken stronger action against genetically modified foods than is the case of the American government and there is a very interesting political history to this.

与美国政府相比,欧洲政府,实施了更强硬手段来,限制转基因食品,而这其中包含了有趣的政治历史问题

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and have taken some actually pretty strong action

他们的行动还是十分有力的，

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