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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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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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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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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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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