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今天我们要学的词是 high-stakes. High-stakes 原意是赌注高，风险大，引申下来是指事关重大。Harvard University is fighting accusations that its admissions office racially discriminated against Asian-American students in a h

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After Roger departed, the children and Mr. Yee went to work. Now that Jessie and Violet had done all the thinning, Mr. Yee showed them how to use a hoe to kill weeds. Oh, said Jessie, this is so much easier than being on the ground and weeding. Yes,

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美联社新闻一分钟 2006-07-25

1. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is in Jerusalem on a high-stakes diplomatic mission. Her first stop was Beirut where leaders were disappointed that her trip did not bring about an Israeli-Hezbo

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High Stakes Threaten the Security of English Language Tests 高风险威胁着英语测试的安全 The British Home Office recently took away the rights of several universities to sponsor foreign students. In February 2014, the universities gave Eng

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President Barack Obama greets Rep. Bill Delahunt, D-Mass., as he exits Air Force One at the Cape Cod Coast Guard Station in Buzzards Bay, Mass., on his way to Martha's Vineyard, 19 Aug 2010 President Barack Obama is spending an increasing amount of t

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The U.S. Congress appears headed for a final battle over health-care reform legislation in the next several days, and the political stakes for President Barack Obama, his Democratic allies and opposition Republicans are enormous. Health-care reform h

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DAVID GREENE, HOST: All right, so when President Trump meets with North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, tonight in Singapore, there is going to be a language barrier. A lot is going to be riding on the skills of interpreters. Now, typically, they are in

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迷你对话： A: Quite a few times, I had my back to the wall. A: 有好几次，我都陷入绝境。 B: Really? Generally they will turn out to be a good thing. B: 真的吗？通常结果证明是好事。 A : Thats right. A: 不过。 B: Youll

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As efforts to try to cap the oil well that has poured millions of gallons of crude into the Gulf of Mexico faltered Saturday, we took a tour of the vast ecosystem along Louisiana coast for a first hand look at what is at stake. The Louisiana coastlin

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Stakes Are High as Obama Prepares Economic Plan

President Barack Obama will go before a joint session of Congress and a nationwide television audience next Thursday, September 8 to announce his plan to boost the struggling U.S. economy. The presidents chances of being re-elected could depend on th

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Stakes high as Afghans go to vote

Millions of Afghans have begun voting in the country's second presidential election since the fall of the Taliban. Militants have threatened(威胁) to disrupt the polls, in which President Hamid Karzai is running for a second term. Some 300,000 Afgha

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By Jim Stevenson Elmont, New York 08 June 2008 Big Brown has fallen shot of winning horse racing's so-called Triple Crown, finishing last at the Belmont Stakes in New York. As VOA's Jim Stevenson reports, the race belonged to an unlikely winner. Da'

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Okay, guys, ready and action! 好了，兄弟们，准备好了，开始！ Save me! Oh, no! -Oh, no, the water is drowning us. 救救我！哦不！-不！我们快要被淹死了。 Attention, everyone! Can you all focus your attention on the drown

美国国家公共电台 NPR With Higher Stakes In The Abortion Debate, Activists March On Washington

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Big crowds are going to be marching through Washington, D.C., this weekend, and a major focus is going to be on abortion and reproductive rights. The anti-abortion rights March For Life kicks off its annual rally today, followed b