The director transposes the action from sixteenth-century France to post-Civil War America.

导演把情节从16世纪的法国转换到内战后的美国。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

Florence Nightingale is known as a nurse, but she also made a new kind of pie chart showing how many soldiers in the Crimean war died from military action and how many from disease.

南丁格尔不仅做为一个护士为人所知，而且她也还创造性的用一种新的形式图表--饼图来显示多少人是牺牲在克里米亚战争的军事行动中，又有多少人是因为疾病而死。

youdao

The Syrian facility was destroyed by Israeli war planes last September in action condemned by Syria, though Damascus said the Israeli target was an unused military site.

叙利亚的这个设施在去年9月被以色列战斗机摧毁。 叙利亚谴责了这个行动，尽管大马士革说，以色列攻击的这个目标是个没有使用过的军事设施。

youdao

He had demanded strong action against them when the war ended.

VOA: special.2010.01.21

Those who demanded immediate action expected a short war.

VOA: special.2009.08.27

Jesse Owens died of lung cancer in 1980 and Luz Long was killed in action during World War II.

VOA: standard.2009.08.19

The basic aesthetic looks more like the overblown drama of Gears of War 3 than the less bloated action of Gears of War 1.

FORBES: Gears of War: Judgement Trailer Giving Us More of The Same

Successful action in the war of ideas requires that policymakers be able to harness the prodigious power of global public opinion.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Public Diplomacy

In 1918, Baron Manfred von Richthofen, the German ace known as the "Red Baron, " was killed in action during World War I.

CNN: Sunday,