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Picture the moment something stops being just a thought or a plan and actually gets DONE — a hand reaching out and moving the world. 'action' is doing, the physical putting-into-effect, as opposed to merely saying or thinking. Almost every other meaning is just that same 'something being done' seen from a different angle.

可以想成：一件事不再只是腦中的念頭或計畫，而是真的「動手做出來、發生在現實裡」的那一刻——一隻手伸出去，把世界推動一…更多收起可以想成：一件事不再只是腦中的念頭或計畫，而是真的「動手做出來、發生在現實裡」的那一刻——一隻手伸出去，把世界推動一下。action 可以想成這個「做、付諸實行」，跟只是嘴上說、心裡想相對。後面幾乎所有意思，都是同一個「有事情正在被做出來」從不同角度去看。

原始詞典資料28 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

actionnoun/ˈækʃən̩/

  • 1

    The effort of performing or doing something.

  • 2

    Something done, often so as to accomplish a purpose.

  • 3

    A way of motion or functioning.

    • Knead bread with a rocking action.
  • 4

    Fast-paced activity.

    • a movie full of exciting action
  • 5

    The way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.

    • Pressing a piano key causes the action of the hammer on the string.
  • 6

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentThe way in which a mechanical device acts when used; especially a firearm.

    • pump-action shotgun
  • 7

    A physical mechanism of a firearm or other device.

    • 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.
    • He then took from under his shirts in another drawer a very flat ·25 Beretta automatic with a skeleton grip, extracted the clip and the single round in the barrel and whipped the action to and fro several times, finally pulling the trigger on the empty chamber.
  • 8

    entertainmentlifestylemusicThe 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.

    • The run in bar 12 is almost impossible with this piano's heavy action.
另外 16 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    artscraftsentertainmentThe distance separating the strings and the fingerboard on a string instrument.

    • You're getting fret buzz because the action is too low.
  • 10

    slangSexual intercourse.

    • She gave him some action.
    • I hope to get a bit of action with the hot guy from the club.
  • 11

    governmentmilitarypoliticsCombat.

    • He saw some action in the Korean War.
  • 12

    lawA charge or other process in a law court (also called lawsuit and actio).

  • 13

    mathematicssciencesA 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).

  • 14

    natural-sciencesphysical-sciencesphysicsThe product of energy and time, especially the product of the Lagrangian and time.

  • 15

    literaturemediapublishingThe 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.

  • 16

    artartsThe attitude or position of the several parts of the body as expressive of the sentiment or passion depicted.

  • 17

    bowlinghobbieslifestylespin put on the bowling ball.

  • 18

    obsoleteA share in the capital stock of a joint-stock company, or in the public funds.

    • So saying he presented him with two actions of above two thousand livres each.
    • the Euripus of funds and actions
  • 19

    ChristianityA religious performance or solemn function, i.e. action sermon, a sacramental sermon in the Scots Presbyterian Church.

    • The Action Sermon is quite simply, then, the eucharistic sermon.
  • 20

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

  • 21

    economicssciencesPurposeful behavior.

  • 22

    A demonstration by activists.

    • The protest was set up in less than three weeks by an ad hoc group called Act Up […] According to Kramer, Act Up will continue AIDS-related organizing, possibly including an action at an early June Washington, D.C., AIDS conference for scientists worldwide.
  • 23

    card-gamespokerThe opportunity to act during a betting round.

    • The action starts with the small blind.
  • 24

    slangcard-gamespokerHeavy betting activity.

    • There was a lot of action on the flop; it was an action flop.

actionintj/ˈækʃən̩/

  • 1

    Demanding or signifying the start of something, usually a performance.

    • The director yelled ‘Action!’ after the cameras started rolling.

actionadj/ˈækʃən̩/

  • 1

    arrogant

actionverb/ˈækʃən̩/

  • 1

    managementTo act on a request etc, in order to put it into effect.

    • ‘Here, give me the minutes of Monday’s meeting. I’ll action your points for you while you get on and sort out the open day.’
    • Violent reactions from the Jewish authorities were expected and difficulties of actioning the new guidelines were foreseen.
  • 2

    archaicTo initiate a legal action against someone.

    • ‘I have no business to settle with you—arrest me, Sir, at your peril and I’ll action you in law for false imprisonment.’
    • “Scrip threatened me at first with an action for slander—he spoke of actions to the wrong man though—action! no, no no. I should have actioned him—ha! ha! [...]”

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。