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at stake
idiom
C2
If something that is valuable is at stake, it is in a situation where it might be lost: 有风险；处于危急关头
Thousands of lives will be at stake if emergency aid does not arrive in the city soon.如果紧急救援物资不能很快运到城中，数千人的生命就会有危险。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Unsafe and insecure
appealingly
be on the lineidiom
day
endangered
insecure
insecurely
insecurity
instable
jeopardy
security breach
shaky
sketchy
someone's/something's days are numberedidiom
threat
threatened
unbalanced
unscreened
unsecured
unsound
unsupervised
at stake | American Dictionary
at stake
idiom
in danger of being lost:
About 3000 jobs are at stake if the company closes down.
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