【句子】What if she says it there? She's like a ticking time bomb! 【ModernFamilyS3E13】.

【发音技巧】What if连读+闪音；says it连读；it there不完全爆破；like a连读；

【翻译】她如果在婚礼上说那个词怎么办？她就像个定时炸弹一样！

今天我们来学习这样一个短语的用法，a ticking time bomb，字面意思应该很好猜了，就是“定时炸弹”；其实这个短语当中的ticking也可以去掉，你如果直接说a time bomb，也是同一个意思，可以换用。

这样的短语字面的意思是：a bomb which contains a device that makes it explode at a particular point in the day；

引申义呢，这个短语在口语中可以用来指：a situation that is likely to cause serious problems in the future；

一个在未来很容易引发严重问题的情况；

汉语中我们也会这么说，比如说：“这个问题是个定时炸弹。”

eg: Rising unemployment is a political time bomb for the government.

日益严重的失业问题对政府来说是一颗政治定时炸弹。

eg:

I'm telling you, this dirty money we're using to finance the campaign is a ticking time bomb! If anyone were to investigate how we got it, we'd all go to jail!

我跟你们说，那笔我们用来做竞选活动的脏钱是一颗定时炸弹。如果有人来调查我们怎么得到那笔钱的，咱们都得去蹲监狱。

eg: A: "So somebody already gave the boss the bad news about the merger?"

B: "Yep, he's basically a ticking time bomb at this point."

A：“所以已经有人跟老板说了收购的那个坏消息？”

B：“是啊，他现在这个阶段基本就是一个定时炸弹。”

eg: That departmental dispute is a time bomb just waiting to go off.

那场部门纠纷就像一颗等待引爆的定时炸弹。

那设定一个定时炸弹呢？英语中可以用set或者create这样的动词去搭配。

eg: By ignoring the wishes of their employees, the managers are setting/creating a time bomb for themselves.

这些经理忽视员工的意愿，这就是在给自己埋一颗定时炸弹。

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This proposal is a political time bomb that could cost the government the next election.

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