A：Mom, can we get cable TV or a satellite dish?
      妈妈，我们可以装有线电视或者卫星电视吗？

action的反义词

B：It costs money, dear. What’s wrong with the regular television stations?
      亲爱的，那可很贵呢。一般的电视台有什么不好？

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A：The shows are dull and they’re too many advertisements.
      这些节目都很没趣，而且广告太多了。

B：Well, you already watch too much TV instead of doing your homework, anyway.
      哦，你可是光看那么多电视不做作业了。

A：There ’re educational stations too. I could learn while I watched TV.
      （卫星电视）也有教育电视台嘛。我可以一边看电视一边学习。

B：Well, that’s true, but you’d probably only watch cartoons and action movies.
      哦，那倒是真的。可是你可能只会看卡通片或动作片哦。

A：No I wouldn’t…can’t we get cable? Everybody has cable.
      不，我不会的。我们不可以装有线电视吗？家家都有。

B：Well, if everybody jumped off a bridge, would you jump too?
      那么，如果人人都跳河，你也跟着跳吗？

A：Mom!!!! Please. All my friends have had it for years.
      妈妈！拜托，我的朋友们几年前就有了。

B：Get new friends.
      那就交一些新朋友。

action的近义词

A：Why are you always so mean?
      你为什么总是这么小气？

B：Because you’d end up spoiled rotten if I wasn’t.
      如果我不这样的话你肯定会被我宠得不行的。

action什么意思

A：I could help pay for it.
      那我也可以出一部分钱嘛。

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B：Let’s see how your grades are this semester, and maybe I’ll talk to your father about it.
      我们看看你这个学期考得怎么样，然后我倒可以和你爸爸商量一下。

A：O.K. Thanks, Mom!
      好的，谢谢妈妈。

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

    e.g. The government is taking emergency action to deal with a housing crisis...
           政府正采取紧急措施解决住房危机。
    e.g. What was needed, he said, was decisive action to halt what he called these savage crimes.
           他说，当务之急就是采取果断行动制止他所称的“这些野蛮罪行”。

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

    e.g. As always, Peter had a reason for his action...
           一如往常，彼得对自己的行为总有说辞。
    e.g. Jack was the sort of man who did not like his actions questioned.
           杰克是那种不喜欢别人质疑自己行为的人。

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

action的解释

    e.g. Two leading law firms are to prepare legal actions against tobacco companies.
           两家很有名的律师事务所准备向烟草公司提起诉讼。
    e.g. ...a libel action brought by one of France's bureaucrats.
           由法国的一名官员提起的诽谤诉讼

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.

    e.g. Her description of the nature and action of poisons is amazingly accurate.
           他对一些毒药的性质和作用的描述惊人地准确。

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.

    e.g. Hollywood is where the action is now.
           好莱坞如今风头正盛。

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

    e.g. Leaders in America have generally supported military action...
           美国领导人普遍支持采取军事行动。
    e.g. 13 soldiers were killed and 10 wounded in action.
           战斗中有13名士兵阵亡，10名士兵受伤。

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.

    e.g. Stallone wants to break away from his action-hero image.
           史泰龙想要摆脱动作明星的形象。

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

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    e.g. Documents can be actioned, or filed immediately.
           文件可被立即处理或归档。

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.

    e.g. He's been out of action for 16 months with a serious knee injury...
           由于膝部严重受伤，他已停工16个月。
    e.g. They were trapped after the lifts went out of action.
           电梯出现故障，他们被困在里面了。

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.

    e.g. Holiday spots have seen a dramatic revival and tourist chiefs are competing for a slice of the action.
           各个度假点重又呈现出一派兴旺景象，旅游业的龙头老大们都在争着分一杯羹。

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.

      e.g. They have learned the lessons of business management theory, and put them into action.
             他们不仅学习了商业管理理论方面的课程，并且学以致用。