The home team was beginning to gain the upper hand.

主队正开始占上风。

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When we sleep, for example, the saliva stream slows, and sulfur producing bacteria gain the upper hand, producing classic "morning breath".

例如，当我们睡觉时，唾液流变慢，产生硫的细菌占上风，便会产生典型的“晨起口臭”。

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And so I think they are concerned that on national security the Republicans could get the upper hand and hurt Obama politically."

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That would be tantamount to creating divine enemies, immortal enemies So God must maintain the upper hand in his struggle with these humans who have learned to defy him. And he maintains the upper hand in this, the fact that they eventually must die.

因为，这相当于创造了一个，旗鼓相当，永生的敌人,所以，上帝在与，这些学会反抗他的人类争斗时,占了上峰，利用他的优势,决定了人类必将死亡的命运。

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Continuing to page 1004, the upper right-hand column: xpectations"--this word is what Iser thinks governs the sort of dialectic that the reading process is playing with.

接着看1004页，右上角一栏：,“期望“，伊瑟尔认为正是这个词，“…,支配着阅读过程中的对立。

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Hamilton's exit threw the race wide open, but Kubica always had the upper hand.

BBC: Kubica wins after Hamilton error

It was the only point in the day when the hosts held the upper hand, however.

BBC: Suppiah gives Somerset a platform

They do think that they are getting the upper hand on the fire right now.

NPR: L.A. Fires Force Evacuation of Park, Zoo