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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Jill's nerves are stretched to breaking point.

吉尔的神经紧张得快到极点了。

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Their five-year relationship was strained beyond breaking point.

他们长达5年的关系紧张得超过了极限。

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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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We pull (the wings) up, pull them down, add weight to them and take them right to the point of breaking.

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In light of Samsung's strategy in deploying the Galaxy S as far and wide (and with as little exclusivity) as possible, that'd certainly make sense -- the company is comfortable switching between GSM, CDMA, and even WiMAX radios at this point without breaking a sweat.

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Mr. Gray's death was the breaking point, but it was a long time coming.

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