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},
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"text": "In the third week Dr. Gale shifted into full throttle back pedal.",
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},
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"ref": "2008, Otis L Graham, Jr., Immigration Reform and America's Unchosen Future, page 193",
"text": "The full-throttle growth was still in place, as it had been as long as I could remember.",
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"sense": "a maximum setting on an engine or motor control",
"word": "加足馬力"
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"word": "加足馬力"
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"word": "加足马力"
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