Instead, an eerie quiet descended. As President Trump refused to concede, the response was not mass action but crickets.
相反，一阵可怕的寂静降临了。由于特朗普总统拒绝让步，人们的反应不是大规模行动，而是搞搞小动作。
英语百科
Mass action
Mass action may refer to:
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
principle, rule
英英词典
mass action n.
(neruology) the principle that the cortex of the brain operates as a coordinated system with large masses of neural tissue involved in all complex functioning