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As the boom reached fever pitch, however, the quality of the loans being pooled into securities dived, especially in mortgages.
然而，由于证券化市场的繁荣达到了狂热的地步，流入市场的贷款（尤其是住房抵押贷款）质量下降。
Some of these questions, which reach a fever pitch in the days leading up toThanksgiving, pertain to the ways in which animals are treated.
讨论这类涉及对待动物方式的问题，在感恩节前的日子里达到白热化的程度。
And the deals seen so far are just the beginning, forecasts Steven Burrill, an industry expert who thinks “the biotech-product ‘land grab’ by Big Pharma” will soon reach “fever pitch”.
据业内专家Steven Burrill预测，所有上述的交易目前看来还仅仅是个开始，制药业巨头对生物科技产品的侵占很快会发展到过热的程度。

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