nail-biter

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It wasn’t exactly a nail-biter: On Thursday, the Senate confirmed Elena Kagan to the U.S. Supreme Court by a vote of 63-37.
局面不算是緊張:星期四,參議院以63比37的表決,確認(rèn)了埃琳娜.卡根為最高法院大法官。
The loss in Virginia, and a nail-biter in North Carolina yet to be decided, mean the Republican hold on the South is cracking.
弗吉尼亞州的失利，以及北卡羅來納州的膠著狀態(tài)意味著共和黨在南部的陣營(yíng)正在瓦解。
In what turned out to be an embarrassing nail-biter, Mr Bloomberg won by just 5%, days after polls had showed him to be ahead by double digits.
由此形成了一個(gè)尷尬緊張的局面，在民意調(diào)查表明他占有兩位數(shù)優(yōu)勢(shì)后數(shù)天，布隆伯格僅勝出5％。

We were watching the Red Sox as we were flying home -- a nail-biter.
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Especially now, with Nasdaq at nail-biter heights and, more worrisome yet, with Greenspan's guns trained on stocks?
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Working in Utah County, most of my colleagues are BYU fans, excited at their nail-biter comeback the other night against Iona.
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