ante

1. N-SING In card games such as poker, the ante is the sum of money staked by the players before the cards are dealt. (撲克等牌類游戲中的) 底注

2. PHRASE If you up the ante or raise the ante, you increase your demands when you are in dispute or fighting for something. (在爭斗中) 加高要求[journalism]

Whenever they reached their goal, they upped the ante, setting increasingly complex challenges for themselves. 每當(dāng)他們達(dá)到了目標(biāo)，他們就加高要求，為他們自己設(shè)置越來越復(fù)雜的挑戰(zhàn)。