One hopes there is still time for countries to see this coming and take preventive action.

有人希望国家还有时间,来发现问题并采取预防措施

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And so I think we need to take action as soon as possible to start reducing carbon dioxide emissions.

所以我觉得我们需要尽快开始行动，减少二氧化碳排放。

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One ought to be interested and to take action on behalf of the polis.

个人应当服从集体的利益,并代表集体的利益行事

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We're going to start talking about vaccines which is really sort of applied immunology: trying to take immunological concepts and put them into action or to engineer them in some way.

我们将会从,属于应用免疫学范畴的疫苗问题讲起,以便把免疫学上的概念,同实际应用或者某种工程学应用联系起来

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All matter contains within it something like a "potency of life"; that's Milton's phrase. It has a capacity for action, actually a capacity for motion, and, just as books can take on a life of their own in Areopagitica, so all matter for later Milton.

所有物质都更包含一种类似“生命的潜质“的东西;,这是弥尔顿的原话，所有物质都有行动的可能,运动的可能，正如《论出版自由》中书籍可以有自己的,生命一样，晚年的弥尔顿相信一切物质都是这样。

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