Intervening in dangerous conflicts when such interests are not at stake fosters a very bad habit.

在这些利益没有受到侵犯时对危险的冲突进行干预形成了一个非常不好的习惯。

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At stake right now is not who wins the next election -after all, we just had an election.

现在的利害不是谁将赢得下次选举，毕竟，我们刚刚举行完一次选举。

youdao

Given everything that is at stake, his decision not to exercise it amounts to an act of vandalism.

考虑到所有利害关系，他决定不去行使裁决权相当于一故意破坏行为。

youdao

There is a lot at stake here; there is the future of Cyprus at stake here, so this is not a small matter."

VOA: standard.2009.09.05

And it is not for Machiavelli simply the existence of these two different moralities that is at stake.

此外对于马基雅维利来说，不仅仅,这两种不同的道德观岌岌可危。

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This is somebody being tortured at the stake for merely existing, for having not confessed to being a Protestant or a Catholic or whatever.

那个人被毫无缘由地处决,或者由于新教徒或天主教徒的身份,或者其他什么原因而受罚

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Where principle is not at stake, he'll compromise, as he has with Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.

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Were so much not at stake, it would be tempting to give up and call the troops home.

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The People's Alliance of President Chandrika Kumaratunga, whose job was not at stake, remains the largest grouping, though its share of the 225-seat parliament has apparently shrunk slightly.

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