It was time to take stock of the situation.

是估量形势的时候了。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

It was time to stand back and take stock of his career.

他该从旁观者的角度来反思一下自己的职业生涯了。

《牛津词典》

Make time to take stock.

找时间去总结下。

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I'm not going to put Yale's entire portfolio in Google stock, I'm not going to go back and take Yale's entire portfolio to day-trade bond futures; in part, because it would be bad for me personally.

我不会用耶鲁的全部资产买谷歌股票,我也不会,用耶鲁的全部资产买债券期货,一方面是因为,这对我个人不利

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

Because a simple economic stock-take of the coalition's first two-and-a-half years in office would not look very impressive at all.

BBC: An economic mid-term review

It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.

BBC: Stark warning over the state of nature

Decrypting a 40-stock portfolio can take 18 seconds, an eternity in wireless time.

FORBES: Hardwired