course of an action

基本解釋

These nouns are compared as they refer to the direction or course of an action or a thought.
當(dāng)這些名詞都指一種行為或思想方向或過程時(shí)它們可以互相比較。
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Geographic Regional Differences in Rocuronium Bromide Dose-Response Relation and Time Course of Action: An Overlooked Factor in Determining Recommended Dosage.
地理區(qū)域性差異在羅庫(kù)溴胺劑量效應(yīng)關(guān)系和時(shí)間效應(yīng)關(guān)系中的作用：當(dāng)決定推薦劑量時(shí)一個(gè)被忽視的因素。
But if ends change in the course of an action, the concept of efficiency—which can only be defined as the best combination of means in pursuit of given ends—again becomes meaningless.
既然效率的概念只能被定義為追求目的的最佳手段，但如果目的會(huì)在行動(dòng)過程中改變，那么效率再一次變得毫無(wú)意義。
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We have the compelling, official authority of the new state licenser, and Milton pits that external state of power against the powers of reason and against the powers of conscience that, of course, were seen to govern human action from within -- an internalized authority.
我們有新政府的出版控制者的強(qiáng)迫的官方統(tǒng)治，彌爾頓陷入了外在的政府權(quán)力和推理的力量,以及良心的力量的對(duì)立，當(dāng)然，被認(rèn)為是從內(nèi)化的統(tǒng)治約束人類行動(dòng)。
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Devaluing is of course an action that deprives others.
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All of this has led Fed-watchers to conclude that the most likely course of action will be an expansion of QE3 in January 2013, perhaps announced in December.
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To be sure, those who advocate this course of action have an interesting case to make.
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