名词

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1. 行动；措施
Action is doing something for a particular purpose.

2. 所做之事；行为
An action is something that you do on a particular occasion.

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

4. （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.

5. 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.

6. 战斗；作战
The fighting which takes place in a war can be referred to as action .

7. （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.

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

9. （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.

10. （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.

11. 把…付诸实践
If you put an idea or policy into action, you begin to use it or cause it to operate.

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

e.g. there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions

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

e.g. the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds
gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible

3. a military engagement

e.g. he saw action in Korea

Synonym: military action

4. 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

Synonym: legal actionaction at law

5. an act by a government body or supranational organization

e.g. recent federal action undermined the segregationist position
the United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues
the Union action of emancipating Southern slaves

6. the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism

e.g. the piano had a very stiff action

Synonym: action mechanism

7. the trait of being active and energetic and forceful

e.g. a man of action

8. the series of events that form a plot

e.g. his novels always have a lot of action

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

e.g. the action of natural forces
volcanic activity

Synonym: natural processnatural actionactivity

10. the state of being active

e.g. his sphere of activity
he is out of action

Synonym: activityactiveness