Analysts fear the overstretched air traffic control system could reach breaking point.

分析家们担心超出承受能力的空中交通控制系统会接近爆点。

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The report on the riot exposed a prison system stretched to breaking point.

关于这场暴乱的报道暴露了一个被逼到崩溃边缘的监狱体制。

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One can never be sure that it is not on the point of breaking out into action.

人们永远无法确定它是否即将付诸行动。

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President Obama said the current system has led the country to a breaking point, imposing hardships on middle-class Americans who struggle to pay for health care, who are unable to obtain it.

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Death is basically just the breaking down of the body, on the physicalist point of view, so that it no longer functions properly.

死亡从根本上说就是我们肉体的损坏,在物理主义看来,肉体再也不能正常工作了

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It's all seen from her point of view and at a distance And then somebody is knocking at the door and breaking in, and that's Kane And then there's a close-up of Kane leaning over the bed ? Right?

都是从苏珊的角度来拍的,镜头比较远,先是有人敲门,那人闯了进来，是凯恩,然后有个对凯恩,俯在床头的特写,对么？

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With Italian interest rates at all-time highs and near breaking point the ECB has dropped its base rate as a signal that it will come to the rescue of the European economy.

FORBES: ECB Cuts Interest Rates As G20 Meets In Cannes

But the breaking point for the government came over a new rescue package for the stricken banks.

ECONOMIST: Return to the dark ages | The

It proved the breaking point as from the next possession the Wolves moved swiftly downfield and Jon Clarke put Wood over by the posts for the decisive try.

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