fever pitch

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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，由於証券化市場的繁榮達到了狂熱的地步，流入市場的貸款（尤其是住房觝押貸款）質量下降。
Some of these questions, which reach a fever pitch in the days leading up toThanksgiving, pertain to the ways in which animals are treated.
討論這類涉及對待動物方式的問題，在感恩節前的日子裡達到白熱化的程度。
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”.
據業內專家Steven Burrill預測，所有上述的交易目前看來還僅僅是個開始，制葯業巨頭對生物科技産品的侵佔很快會發展到過熱的程度。

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