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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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Some seem to believe that our politics can afford to be petty because, in a time of peace, the stakes of our debates appear small. 一些人似乎认为我们的政治制度微不足道，因为在和平时期，我们所争论的话题都是无关紧要

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backset, n 挫折，倒退；涡流，逆流＝check 【记】backset＝set back－倒退 【反】hike（n 远足，增加）

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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

VOA慢速英语2015 高风险威胁着英语测试的安全

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

VOA标准英语2010年-Midterm Elections Post High Stakes for

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

美国国家公共电台 NPR The Pressures Of Being An Interpreter At A High-Stakes Summit

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

迷你对话学地道口语第187期:陷入绝境

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

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

美国习惯用语:492 close ranks...

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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

VOA标准英语2008年-Big Brown Pulls up in Horse Racing's Triple Cro

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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听歌学英语:当死神如此靠近你 Thirty People Away Tamas Wells，是一支来自澳洲墨尔本的独立乐团(indie-pop)，成立于2000年初，目前已发行4张专辑，曲风清新、平缓而又优美。（最为人所熟知的是《V

咱们裸熊 第44期:熊熊们当演员

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

美语听力 English Cafe 299

Topics: McCarthyism and the House Committee on Un-American Activities; Famous Songs: Dixie; to overrate versus to overestimate; that versus so; the stakes are too high Words: McCarthyism Red Scare to play on demagogue hearing to blacklist to change (

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