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1
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Avert

A

Help avert = help prevent

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Know-how

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Skill I don’t have much know-how about engines

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Details on

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Details on timeline still could change

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Headway

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Has made little headway, has made enormous headway

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5
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Headway

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Made enormous headway into computing

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100 billion yuan

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A

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Wager

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Place wager, are placing wagers on a better deal for

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Linchpin

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关键,you failed to understand the linchpin of the issue

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9
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Technological supremacy

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优势

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10
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Spree

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To go on a shopping spree, to go on a spending spree, a crime spree, went on an acquisition spree

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State-owned exterprises

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Alibaba-led consortium

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Impetus

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Momentum gave fresh impetus to industry

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13
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Are you just getting up?

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S

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14
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Good on you

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Well done good job

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15
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I didn’t have long to talk so I cut to the chase

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Yes

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16
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In the early part of 2021

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In the early months of 2021

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17
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Touted the shot

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吹捧

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18
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hailing

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欢呼

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19
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return to normalcy

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Aa

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20
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Are now reversing course

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Moving in opposite direction

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21
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Inch upward

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Moving slowly upward

22
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Restrictions have come into force

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S

23
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Infections have skyrocketed in recent weeks

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Sss

24
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Complacency

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Show the dangers of complacency

25
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To put it simply

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To put it simply, he was fired.

26
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Exasperation

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Anger

27
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Mounting

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Gradually increases; there was mounting pressure on him to resign

28
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Can put strain on country’s health service

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Dd

29
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Waning

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Decreasing, waning immunity of these doses

30
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Two real-world studies

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Ss

31
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Look to be going big

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Ddd

32
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Fanciful

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奇艺,富有想象力,he is a fanciful writer

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Laid out a plan

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Laid out a plan to spend 6.6 million

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It maps out

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It maps out how the UN would deploy

35
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WFP proposes dedicating

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De

36
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To help combat

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D

37
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Compounded

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增重, he compounded his mistake by arguing with the policeman

38
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This is a worst-case scenario

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H

39
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Portugal

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Portugal is at an 87% vaccination rate

40
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Call for

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Demand, he call for helps

41
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Fall in with

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Agree, we have to fall in with the decision

42
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Take on

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Accept job and take on more responsibility, don’t take on more responsibilities that you can handle

43
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Put away

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To forget

44
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Lay aside

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Please lay aside your shyness

45
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Working on

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Working on the plans for the new house

46
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Work out

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Calculate, can you work out how to get to the university by car

47
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Go about

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To deal with something, I want to solve this problem but I don’t know how to go about it

48
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Call off

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Cancelled, the conference in Paris was called off in the last minute due to Covid

49
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To shoot up

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Shot up, unemployment shot up in the first year of recession

50
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Aim for

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You need to aim for 4 more clients this month

51
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Bail out

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We had to bail out of the Sydney deal