The dispute is the most intractable in a series of financial services issues on the table at next week's top-level talks in Washington between the US and China.

下周，中美两国将在华盛顿进行高层会晤。届时，上述问题将是此次会议日程上一系列有关金融服务业问题中最棘手的一项。

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To talk about a water crisis hides intractable problems such as poverty.

谈论水危机掩饰了诸如贫穷这样棘手的问题。

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That so much energy is being focused on solving this most intractable of problems is a good thing.

集中如此之多的精力解决这一最棘手的问题是一件好事。

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According to Senator Edward Kennedy, we are now in a seemingly intractable quagmire, a judgment that is rejected by General George Casey, the US military commander in Iraq.

NPR: Scoring the War in Iraq: Who's Winning?

His has been a triumph of ambition over intractable matter, a fulfilment of Mahler's faith in Arthur Schopenhauer's idea that the human will can overcome any force on earth.

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On the other hand, the way opposing political parties and leaders managed to work alongside one another in both Zimbabwe and Kenya has shown there is a way of resolving what might appear to be intractable problems without holding a country to ransom.

BBC: Letter from Africa: Kenya fuels poll optimism