at stake

基本解釋

With all this at stake, the team behind LCROSS hopes it can find water rather than just evidence of it.
有這些籌碼，LCROSS背后的小組希望它能真的找到水，而不僅僅是找到水存在的證據(jù)。
This is the most important search of your life, and I’m not exaggerating when I say that the only thing at stake is your future.
這是你的人生中最重要的一次搜索——這么說不是我在夸張——你唯一拿來作賭注的是你的未來。
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At stake right now is not just our ability to solve this problem, but our ability to solve any problem.
現(xiàn)在的關鍵并不是要僅僅證明我們有能力解決這個難題，而是政府能夠解決任何難題。

The Justice at Stake Campaign says candidates raised one hundred sixty-eight million dollars between two thousand and two thousand seven.
The discussion is obviously in some way really about sex, and it's the Lady's virginity, of course, that's at stake here.
這個討論很明顯是說性，當然還有小姐岌岌可危的貞操。
耶魯公開課 - 彌爾頓課程節(jié)選
But just to make it concrete and to see what's at stake, consider the distribution of wealth in the United States.
但為了更形象，看看問題何在，以美國的財富分配狀況為例。
耶魯公開課 - 公正課程節(jié)選

Setting aside the issue of the debt ceiling, there is a lot at stake.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

If something that is valuable is at stake, it is in a situation where it might be lost.