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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

action ['ækʃən]
  1. 1. noun [u] (steps,measures) 行动
    We need government action to prevent these crimes.
    我们需要政府采取行动阻止这些罪行
  2. 2. noun [c] (deed) 行为
    He could not be held responsible for his actions.
    他不应被认为要对他的行为负责
  3. 3. noun [c] (movement) 动作
    Their every action was recorded.
    他们的每个动作都被录了下来
  4. 4. noun [c] (in court) 诉讼
    a libel action
    诽谤诉讼
  5. 5. noun [inf] the action 精彩的活动
    Hollywood is where the action is now.
    现今精彩活动都在好莱坞
  6. 6. noun [u] [军] 行动
    military action
    军事行动
  7. 7. adjective [+movie] [ hero] 动作
    to take action
    采取行动
    to put a plan/policy into action
    计划/政策付诸实施
    to bring an action against sb
    [法] 对某人提出起诉
    killed/missing/wounded in action
    [军] 在战斗阵亡/失踪/受伤
    out of action
    [+person] 不能活动
  8. 8. adjective [+machine] 故障

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

action [ˈækʃən]
  1. 1. noun [Person Name] 埃克申
  2. 2. n.[u] 行动行为
    There were stories of murders and other unnatural actions.
    传闻谋杀和其它怪异事情发生
  3. 3. n.[u] 活跃活力活性
    He is out of action.
    他动不了了。
  4. 4. n.[u] [Military] 军事行动交战
    Many friends of mine saw action in Vietnam and many never came back.
    我的许多朋友越南亲眼目睹战争场面,而他们当中有许多人却再也没有回来
    He saw action in Korea.
    他在韩国看到军事行动
  5. 5. n.[u] 自然过程自然作用
  6. 6. n.[c] [Singular] 情节
    The book was full of action and wasn't boring for a single page.
    这本书情节丰富,哪一页都不乏味
    His novels always have a lot of action.
    他的小说总是许多情节
  7. 7. n.[u] 精力充沛活跃积极
  8. 8. n.[u] 机械装置操作部件能动部分
    My first gun was a bolt-action rifle that my grandfather bought me for my fourteenth birthday.
    拥有的第一支枪是爷爷在我十四岁生日时为我买的一支半自动闩式来复步枪
    The piano had a very stiff action.
    那架钢琴机械部件灵活
  9. 9. n.[c/u] [Law] 诉讼
    If you don't get off my land I will be forced to take legal action against you.
    如果你不离开我的土地,我将不得不对你采取法律措施
  10. 10. n.[c] 政府行动国际组织行动
    The government's action against the people is unlawful and will be met with strong resistance.
    政府人民为敌的行为是不合法的,将会受到强烈的抵抗
    The United Nations must have the power to propose and organize action without being hobbled by irrelevant issues.
    联合国必须拥有不受不相关问题掣肘提出主持行动权利
    Recent federal action undermined the segregationist position.
    近期联邦行动消弱了隔离主义者的地位
  11. 11. n.[c] [Slang] 热点焦点
    Gawkers always try to get as close to the action as possible.
    看客总是尽量靠近事发现场。
    The action is no longer in technology stocks but in municipal bonds.
    重点工作不再是技术股方面工作,而是地方政府债券方面工作
  12. 12. n.[c] [Plural] 表现举动
  13. 13. n.[c] [Slang] 激动人心的
  14. 14. n.[u] 作用影响
  15. 15. n.[u] [Slang] 某事物的一部分
  16. 16. n.[c] [Slang] 性行为,发生性关系
  17. 17. n.[c] [Slang] [Underworld Slang] 非法行为犯罪行为
  18. 18. vt. [Law] 起诉控告
    He was actioned for his malicious newspaper article against the local police chief.
    因为在报纸上发表恶意攻击当地警长文章而被起诉
    She actioned the company for discrimination.
    起诉这家公司歧视她。
  19. 19. vt. 执行实施
    He was asked to action the court's decision.
    他被要求执行法院判决
    He actioned the operation.
    主持这次行动

Collins English-English Dictionary

action ['ækʃən]
  1. 1. n the state or process of doing something or being active; operation
  2. 2. n something done, such as an act or deed
  3. 3. n movement or posture during some physical activity
  4. 4. n activity, force, or energy
    a man of action
  5. 5. n [usually plural] conduct or behaviour
  6. 6. n [law] a legal proceeding brought by one party against another, seeking redress of a wrong or recovery of what is due; lawsuit
  7. 7. n the right to bring such a proceeding
  8. 8. n the operating mechanism, esp in a piano, gun, watch, etc
  9. 9. n (of a guitar) the distance between the strings and the fingerboard
  10. 10. n (of keyboard instruments) the sensitivity of the keys to touch
  11. 11. n the force applied to a body
    the reaction is equal and opposite to the action
  12. 12. n the way in which something operates or works
  13. 13. n [Physics] a property of a system expressed as twice the mean kinetic energy of the system over a given time interval multiplied by the time interval
  14. 14. n the product of work or energy and time, usually expressed in joule seconds
    Planck's constant of action
  15. 15. n the events that form the plot of a story, film, play, or other composition
  16. 16. n [Military] a minor engagement
  17. 17. n fighting at sea or on land
    he saw action in the war
  18. 18. n [Philosophy] behaviour which is voluntary and explicable in terms of the agent's reasons, as contrasted with that which is coerced or determined causally
  19. 19. n short for industrial action
  20. 20. n [Brit] [Spoken] the profits of an enterprise or transaction (esp in the phrase a piece of the action)
  21. 21. n [Slang] the main activity, esp social activity
  22. 22. vt. [tr] to put into effect; take action concerning
    matters decided at the meeting cannot be actioned until the following week
  23. 23. interj a command given by a film director to indicate that filming is to begin - See also cue
  24. 24. interj [Etymology] C14: accioun, ultimately from Latin action-, stem of actio, from agere to do, act

Examples

an action accredited to him
认为是他所为
the action of a drug
药物产生的作用
Such action constitutes a felony.
这样的行为实际上等于犯了重罪。
to indicate guidelines for action
简要说明行动方针
an action that will not lie
不被受理的诉讼

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