The phrase "action is translated" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you are discussing how an action is interpreted or conveyed in another form or medium.
Example: "In this context, the action is translated into a series of visual cues that enhance the storytelling."
Alternatives: "action is conveyed" or "action is interpreted".
The next test of his leadership will be when pledges of action are translated into what President John F. Kennedy once called "a long twilight struggle" against a dangerous, unremitting foe.
Words become actions; actions are translated into words.
During the programming of motor responses, an abstract action goal is translated into structured motor programs that eventually specify a set of muscle commands (Keele, 1968 , 1981.
The implicit idea is that the book is being translated before our eyes into live action, which in turn is translated into signed and spoken speech.
"The health of the world economy depends, in substantial measure, on how that chastening is translated into action," he writes.
This original core is then wrapped around with the sort of tweedy, bricky, neo-nothing family houses many of us fear will swamp the banks of the Thames as John Prescott's London overspill housing policy is translated into action.
In other words, it may be a particular genetic mutation of a serotonin-receptor gene, and not the employer's incentives, say, that is making people happier with their work.The hormonal balance-sheetNeurotransmitters are not the only way an individual's genetic make-up is translated into action.
Indeed, Nietzsche continues in even more explicit terms: "Every practice of every moment, every instinct, every valuation that is translated into action is today anti-Christian: what a miscarriage of falseness must modern man be, that he is not ashamed to be called a Christian in spite of all this!" (A 38).
As the nation's next Secretary of State, you will play a crucial role in making sure the blueprint is translated into action.
