Action

(noun.) something done (usually as opposed to something said); 'there were stories of murders and other unnatural actions'.

(noun.) the most important or interesting work or activity in a specific area or field; 'the action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds'; 'gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible'.

(noun.) an act by a government body or supranational organization; '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'.

(noun.) the operating part that transmits power to a mechanism; 'the piano had a very stiff action'.

(noun.) the trait of being active and energetic and forceful; 'a man of action'.

(noun.) the series of events that form a plot; 'his novels always have a lot of action'.

(noun.) the state of being active; 'his sphere of activity'; 'he is out of action'.

(verb.) institute legal proceedings against; file a suit against; 'He was warned that the district attorney would process him'; 'She actioned the company for discrimination'.

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• For what does reason discover, when it pronounces any action vicious? 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Mrs. Bardell, the plaintiff in the action, is within these walls, Sir. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Safety clutches are numerous, by which the machine is quickly and automatically stopped by the action of electro-magnets should a workman or other obstruction be caught in the machinery. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• Notwithstanding its simple action, its structure is complicated by a large amount of adding mechanism. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• But it passed with the action of rising from her chair; and she sat down again very meekly, and fainted. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• The silver, being sensitive to the action of light, is there to record the image. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• According to that doctrine, motives deprive us not of free-will, nor take away our power of performing or forbearing any action. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• For example, if the sun's rays fall upon silver chloride, a chemical action immediately begins, and as a result we have two separate substances, chlorine and silver. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• But the desire did not last long enough to carry him into action. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But the light of that day's discovery, shining on these considerations, roused him to take a more decided course of action. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I represented that I knew him (as I did and do) to be strenuously opposed to it, both in opinion and action. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Defamation of character: action for damages. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• If you would be so kind, said Eunice, vacating her seat at the piano, which action brought a frown to the face of her watchful mother. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• The same experienced union has the same effect on the mind, whether the united objects be motives, volitions and actions; or figure and motion. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• The action of others is always influenced by deciding what stimuli shall call out their actions. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• A commanding general cannot base his actions upon either absolute certainty or absolute ignorance. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• And soon his actions made a most extraordinary reply. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It _is_ wonderful, replied Wickham, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride; and pride had often been his best friend. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• He said so repeatedly; other things he said too, which marked the turn of his feelings and gave the lie to his actions. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• His resolutions and actions affect a greater number of his fellow-creatures. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• The really executive man is a man who ponders his ends, who makes his ideas of the results of his actions as clear and full as possible. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• They were admirable things for the observer--excellent for drawing the veil from men's motives and actions. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The material of thinking is not thoughts, but actions, facts, events, and the relations of things. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• Most people have motives of some sort for their actions. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• To this I reply, that in judging of the actions of men we must proceed upon the same maxims, as when we reason concerning external objects. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.
• Our actions are more voluntary than our judgments; but we have not more liberty in the one than in the other. 戴维·休谟. 人性论.

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