time bomb
定时炸弹：一种被设置在特定时间会爆炸的炸弹
常用释义
英式发音
美式发音
基本释义
- 定时炸弹：一种被设置在特定时间会爆炸的炸弹，也可以用来形容一些具有潜在危险或有害的延迟反应的事物。
例句
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1·Unemployment is building up into a social time bomb across the industrialized world.失业正成为工业化社会中的一种社会性潜在破坏因素。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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2·The object you make is already a time bomb.你做出来的东西迟早都会出问题。
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3·At the very least, Paulson's unprecedented move defuses one ticking time bomb.至少，保尔森史无前例的行为解除了一个一直可能随时爆炸的危机。
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4·The tasks facing Japan are staggering. But a country does not live on a geological time bomb without some accommodation by the national psyche.虽然日本任重道远，但是处在这样一个危机重重地地理位置上，日本人的国民性必然有所适应。
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5·"Instead, it's a time bomb" Just because it took almost 40 years for cancer to hit me, I emphasized, players shouldn't think they could wait to worry about it.我强调说，球员们可不要因为我食用它近四十年后才患上癌症，就认为他们眼下担心此事为时太早。“口嚼烟致癌也有可能比我患上癌症快得多。
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6·The bomb consists of countries that have a combination of budget deficit and borrowings relative to GDP which puts them into the category "Time bomb" or high risk of default.这个炸弹的入选国的债务相对于GDP都非常高，随时都可能爆炸或主权违约。
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7·He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time.他在事先准备炸弹在一小时后爆炸。来源: 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
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8·Those who want to ban the bomb for American citizens claim that if you have one locked in the cabinet, with the fuse in a drawer, you would never be able to assemble it in time to stop an intruder.那些希望禁止美国公民使用这种炸弹的人声称，如果你把一枚炸弹锁在柜子里，把导火线放在抽屉里，你就永远无法及时组装起来，阻止入侵者。
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9·Then Bem drops his bomb: "The results show that practicing a set of words after the recall test does, in fact, reach back in time to facilitate the recall of those words."然后，本扔下了一记重磅炸弹：“结果表明，在回忆测试后进行的一组单词的练习的确反向穿越了时间，因而促进了受试者对这些单词的回忆。”
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10·However, this time it was not a bomb being dropped upon us, but a mistake committed by our very own hands.但这一次并非有人在我们领空投掷核弹，而是一次我们亲手酿成的错误。