action

英[ˈækʃn]美[ˈækʃn]

n.行动，行为，诉讼，作用，功能，战斗，情节，动作片，令人激动的事；

v.采取行动，确保处理(某事)；

复数：actions;

第三人称单数：actions;

过去式：actioned;

现在分词：actioning;

例句

His prompt action prevented the fire from spreading.他的果断行动制止了火势的蔓延。

His intention took shape in action.他的意向已付诸行动。

I take strong exception to your suggestion that this action was done for financial gain.你认为这种行为是以盈利为目的, 我表示强烈反对。

The long-standing dispute about working conditions finally came to a head when the workforce voted for strike action.关于工作条件的长期争论终于达到了白热化的程度, 工人们投票赞成罢工。

Military planes flew over the country in a warlike action.*用飞机在进行*事演习时从该国上空飞过。

To declare war against the small island state looks like the action of a cowardly nation.向一个小小的岛国宣战,看来像是一个怯懦国家的行为。

Almost as a reflex action, I grab my pen as the phone rings.就像是本能反应，电话铃一响我就攥住钢笔。

Let's warm up this party with a little action!让咱们搞点小活动使聚会热闹起来。

The action of the play is centered on the struggle between the two women.那出戏的主要情节是两个女人之间的争斗。

I want to know what is our ulterior action.我想要知道下一步的行动是什么。

英语六级真题

Participation grows through friends and networks and if you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action and bring in other students, he said.

At this time there is nothing to take action on since the analysis has yet to be completed.

Action to restore appropriate price incentives, notably through corrective carbon pricing, is urgently needed to lower the risk of irreversible and potentially devastating effects of climate change.

To show the urgent need for the government to take action.

But now, as then, powerful forces are ideologically opposed to the whole idea of government action on a sufficient scale to jump-start the economy.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

The Paris climate agreement finalised in December last year heralded a new era for climate action.

Prime Minister Cameron has been reluctant to take action.

Take your average trade union member, chances are they will be politically motivated and be used to collective action— much like Erica Gregory.

One study shows that our neighbours' actions are influential in changing our behaviour.

Nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.

But it was the ones that mentioned the actions of neighbours that drove down power use.

A retired member of the Public and Commercial Services Union, she is setting up one of 1,100 action groups with the support of Climate Solidarity, a two-year environmental campaign aimed at trade unionists.

Some performance evaluations require supervisors to take action.

This situation is more serious, and the supervisor may need to take action

The action should beconsistent with the firm's guidelines and may include reassigning the employees to new jobs, suspending them temporarily, or firing them.

A supervisor's action toward a poorly performing worker can affect the attitudes of other employees

The recent trend toward early decision and early action among selective colleges and universities has pushed the traditional deadline of January up to Nov.

When supervisors give employees an unfavorable evaluation, they must decide whether to take any additional actions.

Government action is key to solving economic problems.

In 2005, the Authors Guild of America, together with a group of US publishers, launched a class action suit (集团诉讼) against Google that, after more than two years of negotiation, ended with an announcement last October that Google and the claimants had reached an out-of-court settlement.

What do we learn about the class action suit against Google

What remained controversial after the class action suit ended?

Some critics blame affirmative action – students admitted with lower test scores and grades from shaky high schools often struggle at elite schools.

Affirmative action should be held responsible

Whether all that attention has translated into sufficient action is another question.

I imagine that what my parents were trying to teach me was to take responsibilities for my actions and my choices.

All right, Jane,let's put it into action.

And for this to happen, we may need action on a global scale.

But the status quo can be problematic, since a change in the course of action can sometimes be important and lead to a positive outcome.

nick Perks, project director for Climate Solidarity, believes this sort of activity is where the future of environmental action lies.

Participation grows through friends and networks and if "you realize that's how they're growing, you can start to take action" and bring in other students, he said.

Rosen says he hopes Congress will take action.

Take your average trade union member, chances are they will be politically motivated and be used to collective action —much like Erica Gregory.

That's not to say that risk is always good, but it is related to taking action, whereas decision fatigue assuredly leads to inaction and the possible chagrin of a decision maker who might otherwise prefer a new course but is unfortunately hindered.

The action stems from a federal court order issued on Tuesday requiring Apple to help the Federal Bureau of Investigation to unlock an iPhone used by one of the two attackers who killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California, in December.

The Child Poverty Action Group says 9 out of 30 in every classroom fall below the poverty line.

The market for products designed specifically for older adults could reach $30 billion by next year, and startups want in on the action.

The team plans to return to around a dozen of the buildings to assess progress and consider further action.

The World Meteorological Organization points to Cuba and Bangladesh as examples of countries that have successfully reduced the loss of life caused by natural disasters by taking preventive action.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-UNCOUNT

行动；措施

Action is doing something for a particular purpose.

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N-COUNT

所做之事；行为

An action is something that you do on a particular occasion.

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N-COUNT

诉讼；起诉

To bring a legal action against someone means to bring a case against them in a court of law.

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N-UNCOUNT

（化学物质产生的）作用，效果

The action of a chemical is the way in which it works, or the effects that it has.

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N-SING

激动人心（或重要）的大事

The action is all the important and exciting things that are happening in a situation.

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N-UNCOUNT

战斗；作战

The fighting which takes place in a war can be referred to as action .

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ADJ

（电影）情节惊险刺激的；动作（片）的；动作片中的

An action movie is a film in which a lot of dangerous and exciting things happen. An action hero is the main character in one of these films.

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VERB

处理

If you action something that needs to be done, you deal with it.

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PHRASE

（因受伤或损坏）不能工作，失去作用，无法运转

If someone or something is out of action, they are injured or damaged and cannot work or be used.

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PHRASE

（通常为了赚钱或提高影响力）插手，参与

If someone wants to have a piece of the action or a slice of the action, they want to take part in an exciting activity or situation, usually in order to make money or become more important.

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PHRASE

把…付诸实践

If you put an idea or policy into action, you begin to use it or cause it to operate.

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英汉词典释义

n.

行动, 活动

所做之事, 行为

事件的情节；(小说、故事、电影、戏剧或叙事诗等的)情节；剧情细节；情节发展

作用, 功能

积极的活动，经常处于精力充沛的活动状态；活跃

[复数]举止，品行，(待人的)态度，日常表现

(某事产生的)作用，影响，反应，效应

动作；姿势，姿态

(机器、人体器官等的)运转，工作

[常作 the action][俚语]带投机性的工作；有趣事；快活行动；活力刺激

【法律】诉讼；诉讼权，提起诉讼之权

英英词典释义

Noun

1. something done (usually as opposed to something said);

2. the state of being active;

3. a judicial proceeding brought by one party against another; one party prosecutes another for a wrong done or for protection of a right or for prevention of a wrong

4. an act by a government body or supranational organization;

5. a military engagement;

6. a process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings);

7. the series of events that form a plot;

8. the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism;

9. the trait of being active and energetic and forceful;

10. the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field;

Verb

1. institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against;

2. put in effect;

行业词典

体育： 行动；动作姿势；比赛剧烈进行；*退壳；装弹；击发机构；

力学： 作用量；

医学： 动作：全身、*部或脏器显示的功能或运动；

哲学： 作用；

土木工程： 作用；

水利： 作用；施加在结构上的一组力或引起结构变形的原因，前者称荷载；后者称间接作用。；

法律： 诉讼；战斗；

物理学： 作用量；