他采取了这些措施，力图摆脱困境。

He's taken these measures to try and dig himself out of a hole.

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

不断增加的经济困难迫使他采取了铤而走险的办法。

His increasing financial difficulties forced him to take desperate measures.

《牛津词典》

他们的抱怨最终促使他采取了行动。

Their complaints have finally stirred him into action.

《牛津词典》

One of, I think, Swensen's best talents is he's a good listener and he incorporates basic facts and acts on them.

我觉得,斯文森的优点之一是,他是个很好的倾听者,综合事实情况再采取行动

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So, therefore, we must take up, he suggests, an ascetic path,engaging only, as he says, in "those works" that are fit "for such men as come proud, open-eyed" and laughing to the tomb.

因此我们必须采取，如他所说，一条美学的道路，这些作品只适合于,对那些骄傲的、睁着眼笑嘻嘻“,走向坟墓的人。

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The other great critic of the Miltonic simile for my money takes a completely different tack, and that's Geoffrey Hartman who makes an argument that might even be thought to contradict Fish's argument, although actually Geoffrey Hartman wrote his piece first.

在我看来，另一个对弥尔顿的比喻研究深远的评论家,采取了截然不同的方针，他就是杰弗里哈特曼,他做出了一个被认为是在反驳费什的观点，尽管实际上是哈特曼首先写出了他的观点。

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