time bomb
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈtime bomb noun [countable] 1. PMWSCBa bomb that is set to explode at a particular time 定时炸弹2 PROBLEMa situation that is likely to become a very serious problem 潜在的严重问题 Cutting down the rainforest is an environmental time bomb. 砍伐热带雨林对于环境来说是一枚定时炸弹。
Examples from the Corpus
time bomb• The Senate version of the bill contained a time bomb, however.• It is a time bomb waiting to explode.• Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb.• With the rise in teenage HIV infection rates, we are sitting on a time bomb.• Our baby is a bomb, too: a time bomb.• Was it some psychic time bomb long ago planted on Ludlow Street?• The man is clearly a walking time bomb.• I felt like a walking time bomb, set to detonate in sixty minutes.ˈtime bomb nounChineseSyllable
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time bomb
ˈtime bomb
noun [countable]
1. a bomb that is set to explode at a particular time
2. a situation that is likely to become a very serious problem:
Cutting down the rainforest is an environmental time bomb.
ˈtime bomb
noun [countable]1. a bomb that is set to explode at a particular time
2. a situation that is likely to become a very serious problem: