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act

/akt/US // ækt //UK // (ækt) //

行动,行为,采取行动,扮演

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : anything done, being done, or to be done; deed; performance: a heroic act.
    • : the process of doing: caught in the act.
    • : a formal decision, law, or the like, by a legislature, ruler, court, or other authority; decree or edict; statute; judgment, resolve, or award: an act of Congress.
    • : an instrument or document stating something done or transacted.
    • : one of the main divisions of a play or opera: the second act of Hamlet.
    • : a short performance by one or more entertainers, usually part of a variety show or radio or television program.
    • : the personnel of such a group: The act broke up after 30 years.
    • : false show; pretense; feint: The politician's pious remarks were all an act.
    • : Philosophy. activity in process; operation. the principle or power of operation.form as determining essence.a state of realization, as opposed to potentiality.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to do something; exert energy or force; be employed or operative: He acted promptly in the emergency.
    • : to reach, make, or issue a decision on some matter: I am required to act before noon tomorrow.
    • : to operate or function in a particular way; perform specific duties or functions: to act as manager.
    • : to produce an effect; perform a function: The medicine failed to act.
    • : to behave or conduct oneself in a particular fashion: to act well under all conditions.
    • : to pretend; feign: Act interested even if you're bored.
    • : to perform as an actor: He acted in three plays by Molière.
    • : to be capable of being performed: His plays don't act well.
    • : to serve or substitute: In my absence the assistant manager will act for me.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to represent with one's person: to act Macbeth.
    • : to feign; counterfeit: to act outraged virtue.
    • : to behave as: He acted the fool.
    • : Obsolete. to actuate.
  1. 1
    • : act on / upon to act in accordance with; follow: He acted on my advice.to have an effect on; affect: The stirring music acted on the emotions of the audience.
    • : act out, to demonstrate or illustrate by pantomime or by words and gestures: The party guests acted out stories for one another.Psychology.to give overt expression to without insightful understanding: The patients acted out early traumas by getting angry with the analyst.
    • : act up, to fail to function properly; malfunction: The vacuum cleaner is acting up again.to behave willfully: The children always act up in school the day before a holiday.to become painful or troublesome, especially after a period of improvement or remission: My arthritis is acting up again this morning.
    • : get / have one's act together Informal. to organize one's time, job, resources, etc., so as to function efficiently: The new administration is still getting its act together.

Phrases

  • act of faith
  • act of God
  • act on
  • act one's age
  • act out
  • act up
  • act upon
  • catch in the act
  • clean up (one's act)
  • do a disappearing act
  • get in the act
  • get one's act together
  • hard (tough) act to follow
  • high-wire act
  • in the act of
  • put on an act

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbdo something
Forms: acted, acting
Synonyms
begin开始,开始了,始于,始carry out贯彻执行,进行,实施,进行的create创建,创造,创作,创立develop发展,开发,发展的,发育do做,做到,做什么,做事enforce强制执行,执行,强制实施,强制实行execute执行,实施,执行的,执行任务function功能,职能,功能简介,功能介绍move行动,移动,举措,搬迁operate运作,运营,经营,操作pursue追求,追寻,追踪,争取respond响应,应对,应对措施,应对方法serve服务,服务于,服役,服用undertake承担,从事,开展,承诺accomplish达到,达成,成就,成绩achieve实现,达到,实现了,达到了consummate圆满,完美的,圆满的,精湛的cook烹饪,厨师,烹调,煮饭intrude闯入,侵扰,闯入者,侵入labor劳动,工,工作,劳工maneuver活动,巧取豪夺,巧用,巧计officiate主持人,主礼,主审,主持percolate浸润,渗入,渗滤,渗出perk补贴,补助金,补助,奖励perpetrate肇事者,肇事,侵权行为,侵权persevere坚守,锲而不舍,坚忍不拔,锲而不舍地persist坚守,坚持不懈,坚持,执着practice练习,做法,惯例,实践preside主持人,主审,主持,主导carry on进行,继承,继续,进行下去do a number作数,做个数,做数,做个数吧do one's thing做事,办事,做事情,干活儿get in there进去,进去吧,进去看看,进去后go about行事,转转,转移,转动go for broke孤注一掷,豁出去了,穷追猛打,孤注一掷吧go for it去做吧,去吧,去做,争取go in for从事,进驻,进场,从事的工作go that route走那条路,走这条路,走那个路线,走那条路线go to town进城,进城去,进城去吧,入城knock off收工,淘汰,淘汰赛,敲诈勒索make progress取得进展,进展,取得进步,进展顺利take effect生效,施行,开始生效,生效后take part参加,参赛,参加活动,参与take steps采取措施,采取步骤,采取措施,迈步take up接受,占据,占用,承担transort转运,转移,转送,转载work out锻炼身体,锻炼,工作,编制
Antonyms
verbbehave in a certain way
Forms: acted, acting
verbentertain by playing a role
Forms: acted, acting
Synonyms
enact颁布,制定,颁布了,制定了perform执行,进行,履行,演戏play播放,游戏,玩,玩耍portray描写,描绘,刻画,描画burlesque滑稽戏,滑稽剧,滑稽表演,歌舞剧characterize表征,表明,定性为,表述dramatize戏剧化,演绎,渲染,戏剧化处理emote感情,感动,感情用事,感情方面feign佯装,伪装,假装,冒充ham火火腿,火鸡,火肉,火火impersonate冒充,冒名顶替,冒充他人,冒名mime哑剧,哑谜,哑巴,默剧mimic模仿,模仿者,模仿品,模似mug杯子,杯具,杯子里的东西,杯子里的酒parody戏仿,模仿,讽刺,嘲讽personate具名,具名的,有身份的人,有个性personify化身,体现在,拟人化,体现为pretend假装,装作,装扮,假设rehearse排练,预演,排演,排练时represent代表,代表着,表示,体现在simulate模拟,仿真,模仿,模拟出star明星stooge傀儡,走狗,狗腿子,附庸风雅strut大步流星,大摇大摆地走过来,大摇大摆地走出去,大摇大摆地走过来的be on正在进行中,上,处于,正在进行中的bring down the house把房子弄垮,把房子弄倒,把房子拆了,把房子弄倒了do a turn转身,转弯,转体,翻身go on继续,继续说,下去,接着说go over翻阅,过去的,过去,过ham it up锤炼它,锤击它,锤炼,敲打它lay an egg下蛋,产蛋,产卵,生蛋make debut首次亮相,出道,首首亮相,首首露面play act演戏,戏剧表演,戏曲表演,扮演角色play gig演唱会,演奏,演出,演唱play part扮演角色,扮演的角色,饰演角色,扮演者play role扮演角色,起作用,扮演的角色,角色put it over放过去,把它放过去,放过来,把它放过来say one's piece各抒己见,言归正传,表态,表态发言take part参加,参赛,参加活动,参与tread the boards踩踏板,踩着板子,踩着木板,踩踏板块

Examples

  • Some adherents of QAnon are running for public office, but some others have committed violent acts or threatened them, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

  • With Election Day just seven weeks away, the act is unlikely to become law during this session of Congress.

  • On July 31, the weekly $600 unemployment checks that were sent out thanks to the CARES act officially expired.

  • Every eligible voter’s vote should be counted and not canceled out by fraudulent acts.

  • The governor should forget about it until after the pandemic and legislators get their acts back together.

  • A spokesman for Lewisham council said last year that it would be forced to act if the family returned to Britain.

  • Every once in a while, they act swiftly and acknowledge the problem.

  • That act forever sealed his feeling for the Chief, bound it up with the war, with violence, with the gun.

  • The Samaritan guidelines are written around the assumption that suicide is a purely irrational act, an act spurred by illness.

  • But the act of killing herself done, the message was sent, and heard, and things started changing.

  • He caught himself in the act of listening to you too credulously—and that seemed to him unmanly and dishonorable.

  • He was aware that his act by this time, had helped nobody, had made no one happy or satisfied—not even himself.

  • He had, however, recovered sufficiently to enable him to act with promptitude and discretion.

  • This seems to be contrary to the spirit and intent of the act, which is primarily to centralize reserves in Federal Reserve Banks.

  • The Act permits member banks to accept an amount of bills not exceeding 50 per cent.