1·The bomb must explode within less than a millionth of a second.
那枚炸弹必须在百万分之一秒内爆炸。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·Other kinds of corn have less water and do not pop. When you heat a seed of corn, the water inside makes the corn explode.
其他种类的玉米水分少，不易爆开。当你加热一粒玉米种子时，里面的水会使玉米爆炸。
3·Land mines are small bombs hidden in the ground and designed to explode when someone steps on them.
地雷是隐藏在地下的小炸弹，当有人踩到它们时，就会爆炸。
4·At times, enough gas builds up for the dwarf to collapse, leading its carbon to fuse nearly instantly and the dwarf to explode in a Type I supernova, which can outshine a galaxy for a few months.
有时，足够的气体会积累起来导致这颗矮星发生坍缩，使得它的碳原子几乎能立即聚合，而爆炸成为I类超新星，它在几个月内的亮度能超过一个星系。
5·One of his devices ignited, but failed to explode, in the cargo hold of an American Airlines passenger plane.
在一架美国航空公司飞机的货舱里，他的一个装置引燃了，不过没有爆炸。