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Critics are likely to question how much progress on the investment treaty can be made during the remaining months of the Bush administration, with the Chinese side likely to reserve any big concessions as bargaining chips to use with a new US government.

批评人士可能会质疑，鉴于中方可能会在重大问题上留有余地，作为与美国下一届政府讨价还价的筹码，在布什政府余下的日子里，有关投资协议的商谈还能获得多大进展。

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He reiterated his position that nuclear weapons could not be used as international bargaining chips.

他一再重申他的立场,认为核子武器不可以用来当作国际谈判的筹码.

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The Bush administration has turned Kosovo independence and ABM defence in Poland into faits accomplis, making them unusable as bargaining chips.

布什政府已将科索沃独立和波兰的反导防御系统变成既定事实，这让它们无法成为讨价还价的筹码。

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Two US reporters detained for almost five months in North Korea have indicated that their arrest may have been a premeditated trap laid by Pyongyang at a time when the regime was looking for bargaining chips in a stand-off over its nuclear programme.

曾在朝鲜被扣留近5个月的两名美国记者表示，她们的被捕可能是平壤预设的圈套。当时，朝鲜核计划陷入僵局，该国政府正在寻找议价筹码。

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I would think that a mother's first and foremost priority is to protect her children from any emotional damage, rather than using them as bargaining chips with a spouse or as props to win public sympathy.

我会认为一个母亲首要的任务是要保护他们孩子的情感不受伤害，而不是利用他们作为和配偶谈判的筹码、或者是赢得众人同情的道具。

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He added that North Korea still had several bargaining chips short of denuclearisation, such as freeing two US journalists detained in March or offering moratoriums on missile testing.

他又表示，除了去核化，朝鲜尚有一些讨价还价的筹码，如释放3月份拘押的两名美国记者，或者提议暂停导弹试验。

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Last spring, the Celtics brain trust huddled and identified its most coveted young bargaining chips.

去年春天，凯尔特人智囊团开会确定了他们最令人垂涎，最具讨价还价的筹码。

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These are our concerns; it is not like they are conditions, said Mr Lodi, denying the workers were bargaining chips.

这些是我方的关切；它们并不是条件，洛迪表示。他否认中国工人正被当作谈判筹码。

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Some analysts say North Korea is trying to use the women as bargaining chips to gain a diplomatic advantage with the United States.

有些观察人士说，北韩用这两位记者作为筹码来和美国作交易。

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But armed groups are still believed to be holding dozens of foreigners captive in Iraq as bargaining chips.

但一般相信武装分子仍在伊拉克挟持著数十名外国人质，作为谈判筹码。

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In that context, the North may use the two women as bargaining chips to extract the maximum possible material and diplomatic concessions from Washington.

在这种情况下，北韩也许会利用两名女记者作为谈判筹码，从华盛顿那里获取最大程度的物质与外交让步。

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At least for the early years of their working life, the diploma and the major are their only bargaining chips in the market for talent.

至少在他们工作后的最初几年，文凭和专业是他们在人才市场上仅有的讨价还价的砝码。

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