Now people had to take an action.

现在们必须做出行动。

" Prevent" is to take an action that keeps someone from doing something or keeps something from happening.

prevent是行动阻止某做某事，或阻止某事发生。

If you make a mistake and a week later, you don't care about it or you take an action.

如果你犯了一个错误，一个星期后，你不关心它或行动。

If Tom takes an action and suffers a loss, he's helpless. If Tom benefits himself, while also benefiting Jerry, he's intelligent.

如果汤姆行动并遭受损失，他就是无助。如果汤姆让自己受益，同时也让杰瑞受益，那么他就是聪。

A subject takes an action against a target engaged in some activity.

一个主体对正在进行某项活动目标行动。

You have to take an action and convert it into a thing.

您必须行动并将其转化为事物。

The government can't take an action that jeopardizes a protected species.

政府不能危害受保护物种行动。

You need to take an action to have that outcome.

你需要行动才能实现那个结果。

You're taking an action knowing that these innocent people are going to die.

你知这些无辜因此死去，却还是了行动。

And if taking an action will create a better outcome for everyone involved, that's normally a pretty good reason to take it.

而且如果一个谎言制造一个好结局，那这么做非常合理。

The governments were not taking an action.

政府没有行动。

So how do we explain Sam's regret at not taking an action?

那么, 我们如何解释山姆对没有行动遗憾呢?

You will recognize that you have the capacity to take an action and change your life.

你将意识到，你有能力行动并改变自己生活。

If I'm a consumer thinking about taking an action, I might pause it.

如果我作为消费者在考虑行动，我可能暂时搁置。

And they're going to want to see real hard evidence of the slowing before they took an action.

他们希望在行动之前看到经济放缓切实证据。

That's not quite down here at the behavioral level, but it's pretty close because you can take an action.

那并不是完全在行为层面上，但已经很接近了， 因为你能够行动。

Because in that moment, we had taken an action and created time.

因为在那一刻，我们了行动，创造了时间。

Stripped of accurate ways of measuring their impact, " direct-response ads" that require consumers to take an action (like clicking) lose their appeal.

由于被剥夺了准确衡量成效方法，要求消费者行动（如点击）“直接反应广告”也失去了吸引力。

You can prove to yourself that you are capable of taking an action and creating a desired outcome.

你可以向自己证，你有能力行动并实现预期结果。

So we've covered some examples of what happens when we should have taken an action but we didn't.

因此, 我们已经介绍了一些例子, 说当我们应该行动时发生什么, 但我们没有。