无法工作：指无法执行正常的工作或职能。
so badly injured as to be excused from continuing
同义词： disabled / hors de combat
... action potential动作电位;动诅位 out of action损坏;不运转;失去作用 control action控制作用;控制动作 ...
... Action 行动。功能 Out of action失去作用，损坏 有故障 Interaction n.交互作用, 交感. inter前缀表示相互的意思。 ...
... action potential动作电位;动诅位 out of action损坏;不运转;失去作用 control action控制作用;控制动作 ...
... in the act of 正在。。时 out of action 不起作用 take action 采取行动；提出诉讼；开始起作用 adapt to 适应 ...
损坏；不运转；失去作用
He's been out of action for 16 months with a serious knee injury.
他因严重的膝伤已经16个月不能活动了。
The photocopier is out of action today.
复印机今天出故障了。
Jon will be out of action for weeks with a broken leg.
乔恩断了一条腿，将有几个星期不能工作。
"Ben approached a financial system on the verge of collapse with calm and wisdom, with bold action and out-of-the-box thinking that has helped put the brakes on our economic freefall."
VOA : special.2009.08.28
A sell-out crowd of 71,000 was treated to an action-filled match.
VOA : standard.2009.07.25
In the heart it turns out that the cells of the heart are electrically coupled together, so if an action potential moves down this cell it directly moves into the next cell.
在心脏中,事实证明,心脏细胞是电偶联的,所以如果动作电位在一个细胞中传递,那么直接就能传递给下个细胞
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"What we expect to see come out of the summit is a communiqu with an action plan, a specific timeline with very particular benchmarks that are measurable on how to secure and lockdown these vulnerable nuclear materials."
VOA : standard.2010.04.06
The Hamnavoe has suffered engine problems and could be out of action for a month.
In 2009, he suffered a fractured ankle which kept him out of action for six months.
Smith was originally expected to be out of action for the whole of 2006.