course of an action

基本解释

These nouns are compared as they refer to the direction or course of an action or a thought.
当这些名词都指一种行为或思想方向或过程时它们可以互相比较。
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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.
地理区域性差异在罗库溴胺剂量效应关系和时间效应关系中的作用：当决定推荐剂量时一个被忽视的因素。
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义为追求目的的最佳手段，但如果目的会在行动过程中改变，那么效率再一次变得毫无意义。
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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.
我们有新政府的出版控制者的强迫的官方统治，弥尔顿陷入了外在的政府权力和推理的力量,以及良心的力量的对立，当然，被认为是从内化的统治约束人类行动。
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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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