From there I set off, heading south, along the border stones and white stakes that marked out the western side of the border with East Germany. I had my camera with me.

我带着相机从那里出发，沿着边界石头和标示东西德边界的白色桩子向南行进。

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Part of a fence which is beyond white stakes defining out of bounds, and therefore not a boundary fence, leans onto the course and interferes with a players swing.

栅栏的一部分越过定义界外的白色立桩，因此不是边界栅栏，倾斜在球场上，影响球员的挥杆。

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If winning the White House represents a resolution of the Obamas' struggles, it also means a new, higher-stakes confrontation with some of the vexing issues that fed those tensions.

如果说赢得白宫的地位代表了奥巴马斗争的决心，那么这也意味着与助长紧张气氛的烦人事件开展新的、高风险的对抗。

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But the administration had little choice but to raise the stakes, White House officials said, given that the other competitors all were sending their heads of state to Copenhagen.

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The desire to fit in is a universal human trait and the stakes get much higher if you've got the only brown face in a white world.

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