Schools with better reputations will be flooded with applications while poorer schools will be left high and dry.

声誉好些的学校将会收到大量申请，而差些的学校则将陷入困境。

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Despite the current economic downturn, we should try not to be left high and dry in our daily lives.

虽然目前经济衰退，我们日常生活不该处于无援境地。

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But a nominee beloved by the party faithful in 2012 could be left high and dry by the more centrist electorate typical of a presidential election year.

NPR: 2012: Economy, GOP Set Tone Of Presidential Race

To be clear, the Co-op isn't going to withdraw from banking tomorrow, so there is no reason for Co-op depositors to feel they are going to be left high and dry.

BBC: Will Co-Op pull out of banking?

The reason the billionaire oligarchs feel it is a legitimate fear that they could be left high and dry is because it will take many months for them to sell their stake: the sale would require regulatory approval and also the unwinding of the complex network of international companies through which they own their stake in TNK-BP.

BBC: Why BP's Russian deal collapsed - and how it might be rescued