action
n. 行动, 活动, 动作, 作用, 战斗, 行为, 诉讼 vt. 对...起诉 [计] 方式
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教材释义与例句
行动；活动；功能；战斗；情节
the process of doing something, especially in order to achieve a particular thing
The government must take action (= do something ) now to stop the rise in violent crime.
政府现在必须采取行动遏止暴力犯罪的上升。
She was looking forward to putting her ideas into action (= doing the things she had planned ) .
她盼望着将自己的想法付诸实施。
Ambulance crews are ready to spring into action (= suddenly start doing something ) if anything goes wrong during the race.
救护车急救人员随时准备出动，以应对比赛期间发生的意外。
释义与例句
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The effort of performing or doing something.
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Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.
行动
作用
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A way of motion or functioning.
动作
可数 不可数Knead bread with a rocking action.
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Fast-paced activity.
可数 不可数a movie full of exciting action
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The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
可数 不可数Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.
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The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.
The way in which cartridges are loaded, locked, and extracted from the mechanism.
可数 不可数 工程 政治 军事pump-action shotgun
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A physical mechanism.
可数 不可数1923, Ernest Bramah, The Eyes of Max Carrados Spinola was hovering about the external fittings of the figure with unusual fussiness. When at length he released the left hand it seemed for an almost perceptible moment that the action hung. Then the arm descended and carried out the discard.
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The mechanism, that is the set of moving mechanical parts, of a keyboard instrument, like a piano, which transfers the motion of the key to the sound-making device.
可数 不可数 音乐The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.
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The distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.
可数 不可数 艺术 音乐You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.
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Sexual intercourse.
可数 俚语 不可数She gave him some action.
I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.
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Combat.
战斗
可数 不可数 政治 军事He saw some action in the Korean War.
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A charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).
诉讼
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A way in which each element of some algebraic structure transforms some other structure or set, in a way which respects the structure of the first. Formally, this may be seen as a morphism from the first structure into some structure of endomorphisms of the second; for example, a group action of a group G on a set S can be seen as a group homomorphism from G into the set of bijections on S (which form a group under function composition), while a module M over a ring R can be defined as an abelian group together with a ring homomorphism from R into the ring of group endomorphisms of M (which is also called the action of R on M).
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The product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.
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The event or connected series of events, either real or imaginary, forming the subject of a play, poem, or other composition; the unfolding of the drama of events.
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The attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.
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spin put on the bowling ball.
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A share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.
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A religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.
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A process existing in or produced by nature (rather than by the intent of human beings).
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Purposeful behavior.
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A demonstration by activists.
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The opportunity to act during a betting round.
不可数 游戏 可数The action starts with the small blind.
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Heavy betting activity.
俚语 不可数 游戏 引申义 可数There was a lot of action on the flop; it was an action flop.
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To act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.
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To initiate a legal action against someone.
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arrogant
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Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.
开始
The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.
词汇关系
同义词 9
上位词 6
下位词 9
近义相关 7
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Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂eǵ- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti Proto-Italic *agō Latin agō Latin āctum Proto-Indo-European *-tisder. Proto-Italic *-tjō Latin -tiō Latin āctiō Old French aucionbor. Middle English accioun English action From Middle English accioun, accion, from Old French aucion, acciun, from Latin āctiō(n) (“act of doing or making”), from āct(us) + action suffix -iō(n), perfect passive participle of agere (“do, act”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éǵeti. See also act, active. By surface analysis, act + -ion.
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