Now people had to take an action.

现在人们必须做出行动。

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

prevent是指采取行动阻止某人做某事，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，你不关心它或采取行动。

The governments were not taking an action.

政府没有采取行动。

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

主体对从事某项活动的目标采取行动。

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

您必须采取行动并将其转化为事物。

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

那么我们如何解释萨姆对没有采取行动的遗憾呢？

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

而且如果一个谎言会制造一个好的结局，那这么做会非常合理。

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示例，说明当我们应该采取行动但我们没有采取行动时会发生什么情况没有。

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的方法，要求消费者采取行动（如点击）的“直接反应广告”也失去了吸引力。