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单词 time bomb
释义
time bombˈtime bomb noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • With the rise in teenage HIV infection rates, we are sitting on a time bomb.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Her footsteps and the faint noise of her limbs striking one another as she walked sounded like the mechanism of a time bomb.
  • I felt like a walking time bomb, set to detonate in sixty minutes.
  • It is a time bomb waiting to explode.
  • Our baby is a bomb, too: a time bomb.
  • The man is clearly a walking time bomb.
  • The Senate version of the bill contained a time bomb, however.
  • Was it some psychic time bomb long ago planted on Ludlow Street?
word sets
WORD SETS
car bomb, noundefuse, verbdevice, noundisarm, verbexplosion, nounexplosive, nounfuse, nounguerrilla, noungunman, noungunpowder, noungun-running, nounletter bomb, nounmine, nounmine, verbminefield, nounMolotov cocktail, nounparamilitary, adjectivepetrol bomb, nounSemtex, nounterror, nounterrorism, nounterrorist, nountime bomb, noun
1a bomb that is set to explode at a particular time2a situation that is likely to become a very serious problem:  Cutting down the rainforest is an environmental time bomb.
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