ticking time bomb
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n.名詞定時炸彈
The abandoned factory is a ticking time bomb, waiting for an accident to happen.
n.名詞定時炸彈 (健康)
His high cholesterol and sedentary lifestyle make him a ticking time bomb for a heart attack.
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"熊貓的力量》專題片|轉紅|迪士尼+ (“Panda Power” Featurette | Turning Red | Disney+)
02:18
- MEI I'm a furry ticking time bomb!
MEI 我是一個毛茸茸的定時炸彈!
卡斯卡迪亞斷層準備破裂：特大地震即將來臨 (The Cascadia Fault Is Ready To Rupture: A MEGA Earthquake Is Coming!)
10:58
- A Cascadia subduction zone stretching from northern Vancouver Island to northern California is a ticking time bomb.
從溫哥華島北部一直延伸到加利福尼亞北部的卡斯卡迪亞俯衝帶是一顆定時炸彈。
地球上最危險的湖泊 (The Most Dangerous Lake on Earth)
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- Lake Manown, in other words, had potentially been a slowly ticking time bomb for centuries, completely and insidiously impossible to detect by the people who chose to settle around it.
換句話說，幾個世紀以來，馬諾恩湖一直是一個潛在的定時炸彈，選擇在其周圍定居的人們完全無法察覺到它的存在。
- But only for a few more months, because astoundingly, only about a hundred kilometers away to the northwest of Lake Manown, there was another one of these ticking time bomb lakes in Cameroon that nobody was aware about that was also, almost impossibly coincidentally, at that very moment, also on the verge of exploding as well.
但這只是幾個月的時間，因為令人震驚的是，就在馬諾恩湖西北方向約一百公里處，喀麥隆還有另一個無人知曉的定時炸彈湖，幾乎不可能巧合的是，就在此時此刻，它也瀕臨爆炸的邊緣。
日本最危險的火山即將爆發？| 東京的噩夢 (Is Japan’s Most Dangerous Volcano About to Erupt? | Tokyo’s Nightmare)
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- With over 300,000 climbers every year, it's easy to forget that Japan's most iconic mountain is in fact a ticking time bomb.
每年有 30 多萬人登山，人們很容易忘記日本最具標誌性的山峰其實是一顆定時炸彈。
長期債券時代的終結 (The End of the Long Bond Era)
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- The sell-off in longer-term bonds really shows investors that all of these major governments have a huge fiscal deficit problem and that it's really a ticking time bomb because that's not going to be solved anytime soon.
長期債券的拋售確實向投資者表明，所有這些主要政府都面臨著巨大的財政赤字問題，這確實是一個定時炸彈，因為它不會很快得到解決。
洛杉磯的野火加劇了該市長達數十年的住房危機 | The Excerpt (L.A.'s wildfires have only intensified the city's decades-long housing crisis | The Excerpt)
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- They came earlier this year of 70, 80 miles an hour winds that are unpredictable in terms of where they're going to go, and you add to that global warming and the lack of rain, and Los Angeles was a ticking time bomb that's waiting to explode in terms of another fire.
今年早些時候，洛杉磯颳起了時速 70、80 英里的大風，風向難以預測，再加上全球變暖和雨水稀少，洛杉磯就像一顆定時炸彈，隨時等待著另一場大火的爆發。
為什麼美國人喜歡冷凍食品 (Why Americans Love Frozen Food)
13:08
- And that's a ticking time bomb that Phononic aims to defuse.
而這正是 Phononic 想要拆除的定時炸彈。
