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英语单词act

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vt. 扮演；装作，举动像
vi. 行动；扮演，充当；表现，举止；假装，演戏；起作用，见效
n. 行为，行动；法令，法案；（戏剧，歌剧的）一幕，段；装腔作势

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Calling out our fears explicitly, as Leah did, can help us act decisively.

As the world's food security falls to pieces, individual countries acting in their own self-interest are actually worsening the troubles of many.

It caught us in the act, sent an alert to my smartphone, and also listed our RF interference on the system's event log.

Consumers, in the U.S. at least, are acting cautiously with the savings they're getting at the gas pump, as the memory of the recent great recession is still fresh in their mind.

Just as peer-to-peer businesses like eBay allow anyone to become a retailer, sharing sites let individuals act as an ad hoc ( 临时的) taxi service, car-hire firm or boutique hotel (精品酒店) as and when it suits them.

It is essential that we act with integrity in order to build the kind of world in which we want to live.

In mixed schools boys feel compelled to act like men before they understand themselves well enough to know what that means, " the study reported

The real test of character is whether we can learn from our mistake, by understanding why we acted as we did and then exploring ways to avoid similar problems in the future.

Yes, but I was going to say I thought the acting was terrible.

Because the values of each culture are different, understanding the values of another culture helps explain how people think and act.

If you can accept that people from other cultures act according to their values, not yours, getting along with them will be much easier

The way to complain is to act business-like and important.

If you act like someone who expects a fair request to be granted, chances are it will be granted

Shouting or acting rude will get you nowhere.

But can artificial intelligence AI machines act ethically, meaning can they be honest and fair?

So I have to act quickly.

They are already on California roads, so it is not too soon to ask whether we can program a machine to act ethically.

When someone commits a criminal act, we always hope the punishment will match the offense.

with the popularity of the car, registration became a must in 1903 with the Motor Car Act.

Moreover, nonparticipation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.

Saying that there're no easy answers sounds wise, but it's actually foolish: our unemployment crisis could be cured very quickly if we had the intellectual clarity and political will to act.

Each business acts its own way in green labeling.

As I said, structural unemployment isn't a real problem, it's an excuse—a reason not to act on America's problems at a time when action is desperately needed.

And perhaps parents are acting more like parents than in the recent past.

Parents, teachers, even the kids themselves, scored the youngsters on measures like acting before thinking and persistence in reaching goals.

It did not escape notice that a lobbying firm set up by Lynton Crosby, David Cameron's election campaign director, had previously acted for Philip Morris International.

The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary ( ' , and thereby the FAA) from regulating the de sign or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted in a serious or fatal injury to crew or passengers.

Amend its 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act.

"The dangerous thing about lying is people don't understand how the act changes us," says Dan Ariely, behavioural psychologist at Duke University.

According to a series of experiments published in the Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology by professors Gary Lupyan and Daniel Swignley, the act of using verbal clues to 27 trigger mental pictures helps people function quicker.

Because previous research has shown that people with high intellectual abilities are better at filtering out distractions, researchers believed students with high ACT scores would not show a significant decrease in performance due to their use of digital

But students who surfed the web during class did worse on their exams regardless of their ACT scores, suggesting that even the academically smartest students are harmed when they're distracted in class.

I diligently attended my SAT, ACT, and Advanced Placement test preparation courses.

It was a symbolic act, indicating that under Grune's leadership, Reader's Digest was going to be different.

It's the fastest-ever recovery of a mammal, joining peers like the Louisiana black bear as glowing successes in the history of the Endangered Species Act.

Moreover, non-participation by nations, if sufficiently widespread, can undermine the political will of participating countries to act.

Researchers used ACT scores as a measure of intellectual aptitude.

Senator Hokkons Baules, lead sponsor of the Palau National Marine Sanctuary Act, said the sanctuary will "help build a secure future for the Palauan people by honoring the conservation traditions of our past".

The 2004 Commercial Space Launch Amendments Act, intended to encourage private space vehicles and services, prohibits the transportation secretary and thereby the FA from regulating the design or operation of private spacecraft, unless they have resulted

The impolite act violates the basic rules of etiquette.

They are the National Health Service and the 1948 National Assistance Act.

According to the code, visitors should act with care and respect.

Acts of generosity can change lives or just give you that warm feeling full of love.

Gossip also can have a third effect: It strengthens unwritten, unspoken rules about how people should act.

He also won praise from social media users after Mr.Anderson posted about the act of kindness on Facebook.

Her simple act landed parks in prison.

I read that people are more divided than ever, but that's not how the people I encounter tend to act.

In that sense, I'm pretty sure volunteering is more of a selfish act than I'd freely like to admit.

Kunqu society, the classical Chinese theater which combines singing, dancing and acting to literary works by masters of Ming and Qing dynasties, performing introduces four signature plays of Kunqu master Jiqing Zhang to American audiences.

Light is a powerful biological force, and on many species it acts as a magnet.

Not everyone acts the same in response to events, and that is why what triggers one person may or may not trigger another.

Pretty much everyone you know acts differently.

Restarting antitrust for the information age will not be easy but if govemments don't wants a data oconomy by a few giants, they must act soon.

Rising above self and acting to help others.

Self expression there are many ways to express thoughts and ideas –music, acting, drawing, building, photography.

Sometimes I act as a listening ear for fellow students to talk over what is bothering them.

The findings challenge a key principle of modern parenting where schools except them to act as partners in their children's education.

They are both passionate about acting and interested in people.

This example should act as an inspiration for all cities.

This small act will let your neighbors know that you care about the area.

Think twice before we act.

We both passionate about acting, which comes from us being so interested in people.

We must act as quickly as possible now.

When he was writing his novels, Charles Dickens would act out the parts of the characters, he'd make faces in the mirror, and change his voice for each character.

While it is easy to ignore in our contact with them the effect of our acts upon their disposition, it is not so easy as in dealing with adults.

The IASB says it does not want to act without overall planning, but the pressure to fold when it completes it reconstruction of rules later this year is strong.

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

Because most of us believe that mind is separate from matter， we think that thoughts can be hidden and made powerless； this allows us to think one way and act another.

For earned media , such marketers act as the initiator for users’ responses.

Within the complex social structure of the scientific community, researchers make discoveries; editors and reviewers act as gatekeepers by controlling the publication process; other scientists use the new finding to suit their own purposes; and finally, the public ( ' , including other scientists) receives the new discovery and possibly accompanying technology.

The only major objection came from Justice Antonin Scalia,who offered an even more robust defense of state privileges going back to the alien and Sedition Acts.

such dimensions of read suggest-as others introduced later in the book will also do-that we bring an implicit ( ' , often unacknowledged) agenda to any act of reading.

Ideally, different kinds of reading inform each other, and act as useful reference points for and counterbalances to one another.

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America’s Foreign Corrupt Practices Act( ' , FCPA).

The high court’s decision said the judge in Mr.McDonnell’s trial failed to tell a jury that it must look only at his “official acts,” or the former governor’s decisions on “specific” and “unsettled” issues related to his duties.

The basic compact underlying representative government, wrote Chief Justice John Roberts for the court,” assumes that public officials will hear from their constituents and act on their concerns.

Simply arranging a meeting, making a phone call, or hosting an event is not an official act.

A recent study attempts to separate them by looking at bribery prosecutions under America's Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Anyway, the act of laughing probably does produce other types of physical feedback, that improve an individual's emotional state.

But for all the reasons there are to celebrate the computer, we must also act with caution.

For earned media, such marketers act as the initiator for users' responses.

In 1968, the Congress of the United States passed the Jury Selection and Service Act, ushering in a new era of democratic reforms for the jury.

In the US, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 has pushed most public companies to defer performance bonuses for senior executives by about a year, slightly helping reduce "short-termism."

Instead, the studies ended up giving their name to the Hawthorne effect", the extremely influential idea that the very act of being experimented upon changed subjects'behavior.

similarly, the physical act of laughter could improve mood.

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