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词汇 up-the-ante
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up the ante


idiom
If you up the ante, you increase your demands or the risks in a situation in order to achieve a better result: 增加赌注;提高要求;提高风险
The government has upped the ante by refusing to negotiate until a ceasefire has been agreed .政府增加了砝码,在达成停火协议之前拒绝谈判。
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up the ante | American Dictionary


up the ante


idiom(alsoraise the ante)
to increase your risks or demands in order to get a greater advantage:
The governor upped the ante in her war of words with the mayor, by calling him "dangerous" for the city.

Examples of up the ante


up the ante
Thus, negotiating governments may be obliged to uptheante by offering additional incentives, perhaps relating to political viability, to the opposition groups.
They will always "uptheante" on it.
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If it works already, why uptheante and raise the nuclear power?
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We do not need to uptheante and have a problematic debate that would make things difficult.
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But because we call most subjects important, it is important, too, to uptheante sometimes and call some of them crucial.
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Its purpose would be to uptheante and thus force the first union to raise its sights even higher.
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It acknowledges that teaching is a vocation and that, unless rewards are adequate in the market place, employers will uptheante by offering higher salaries elsewhere.
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That is why we need to uptheante towards a holistic approach and the directive we are awaiting is very important within this framework, as has rightly been said.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
He later decided to uptheante and make it an official release.
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We're looking to uptheante and top ourselves.
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Because most of these stories focused on a character proving his innocence, authors uptheante by making him an amnesiac, unable to prove his innocence even to himself.
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After numerous lunchroom debates on which great historical baseball teams would win if they could play each other, a few guys decided to uptheante.
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