The first act takes place in 1898 at the time of the Qing dynasty.

第一幕发生在1898年的清朝。

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I thought it was the perfect time and place to look for an act of kindness to do.

我认为这是一个完美的时间和地点去找一件善事来做。

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Research everything: Act like an anthropologist and study everything about your potential place of work, career, and town.

研究所有的事情：像人类学家一样去研究你即将要工作的场所、职业前景、居住环境等。

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The United Nations Security Council has the lead responsibility for deciding that an act of aggression has taken place.

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Your committee is concerned that in not one single case of a trial that has taken place to date, have they actually been charged with a terrorist act.

VOA: standard.2009.04.09

"So that the perpetrators of this act will be taken to court and that the process of the law must take its place and those who have committed this terrible act must face the law and face the punishment that they deserve."

VOA: standard.2010.04.05

What takes place tonight is an act of courage and weakness mixed with strength.

BBC: Media reflect on Benedict XVI's last day as Pope

The sequester was put into place as part of the Budget Control Act in order to compel Congress to do its job.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

Meanwhile, Jonathan Kent's sometimes imaginative, sometimes annoying new production for the English National Opera is set nowhere in particular: the whole of Act I takes place in the she's-read-too-many-storybooks mind of Senta as a young girl.

WSJ: Review: Saving a Sinking Ship | 'Flying Dutchman' at the English National Opera