stakes [s'teɪks]

例句:

• The stakes are high as Shawn Henry told me.
  来自BBC
• By arresting the organisation's two top leaders the government and the army have now raised the stakes.
  逮捕了该组织的两名主要头目后，政府和军队现在面临的风险更大了。
  
• Britain lags behind in the European childcare stakes.
  英国在儿童保育方面落后于欧洲其他国家。
  
• An amateur shouldn't play roulette for high stakes.
  外行不该下大赌注赌轮盘赌.
  
• We need to go on playing the high-stakes game.
  来自BBC
• The stakes of dithering on these issues are high.
  来自SA