He puts his administration at risk if he doesn't come through on these promises for reform.
如果他不能兑现这些改革的承诺,他将使他的政府处于危险境地。
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When the bear puts his tail into the water through a hole in the ice, to try and catch a fish, the ice freezes around it, and he ends up pulling his tail off.
The code example shows how the application looks up a cache instance through its JNDI name, puts an object into a cache instance, and then retrieves it later.