Sometimes the price of catastrophic insurance is chokingly high while the risk remains remote.

有时候灾难保险的费用高得令人咂舌，但灾害是否会发生还是未知之数。

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The Shanghai stock market halved its gains to end up 1.17 percent, a four-week closing high, while copper futures rose in Shanghai and London.

上海股票市场平均收益率增加了1.17个百分点，创四周以来最高，同时伦敦和上海期货铜价格也在上涨。

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The peak of its pylon is 452 feet high, while the bridge's total length is just shy of a mile.

最高塔架高达452英尺，而桥全长度不足一英里。

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While in high school, Roberto signed a contract to play baseball for the Santurce Crabbers in the Puerto Rican winter league.

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It's okay to stick around for a while, but if the high point of the story occurs in chapter 2 and then there are another 67 chapters after that, you think, this was not a well-constructed novel.

有一段下跌并没有关系，但是如果故事高潮在第二章出现2,后面还有67章，你会觉得这部小说结构不好。

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for a while before deciding, "I'd rather teach high school

那是在我下决定之前的一段时间，“我宁愿教高中，

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Unemployment remains stubbornly high while measures of inflation are getting awfully close to deflationary territory.

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The EAW says river levels remain high while the ground is saturated due to "particularly bad" weather this month.

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Peripheral bond yields remain almost prohibitively high while austerity in several nations like Greece and Italy could exacerbate debt-to-GDP ratios.

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