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单词	hair-trigger
释义	hair-trigger 1 of 2 adjective hair-trig·​ger ˈher-ˌtri-gər  1 : immediately responsive to the slightest stimulus a hair-trigger temper 2 : delicately adjusted or easily disrupted hair trigger 2 of 2 noun : a gun trigger so adjusted as to permit the firearm to be fired by a very slight pressure Example Sentences Recent Examples on the Web Noun He is charged with illuminating the line between right and wrong at a time when war seems but a hair trigger from peace, when the ways to kill grow ever more sophisticated, when the consequences stream round the world instantaneously. Mary Beth Mccauley, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 May 2022 Long-term stress can mean our fight-or-flight response does its thing on a hair trigger. Eleanor Morgan, refinery29.com, 12 Nov. 2021 All these moves would make the world safer and might also dissuade China, which does not have its missiles on a hair trigger, from adopting that policy. The Editors, Scientific American, 1 Mar. 2017 His letters to the editor, fired on a hair trigger, left a trail of gun smoke. Los Angeles Times, 12 July 2021 But try telling that to Washington politicians who are on hair trigger alert for any development that might define the early months of a new administration. Stephen Collinson, CNN, 10 May 2021 Many experts have urged Biden to reform the launch system, perhaps requiring two or more people to authorize nuclear weapons use, or taking the whole system off a hair trigger altogether. Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 20 Jan. 2021 The speed and number of people involved in the destruction showed Minneapolis remains on a hair trigger nearly three months after the police killing of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, on Memorial Day. Nicole Norfleet, Star Tribune, 27 Aug. 2020 So far there’s been no launch, but the strange shooting death this weekend of a South Korean official who might have been looking to enter the North by boat nonetheless highlights the hair trigger on which the Peninsula still rests. John Bolton, WSJ, 29 Sep. 2020 See More Word History First Known Use Adjective 1834, in the meaning defined at sense 1 Noun 1802, in the meaning defined above hair-trigger adjective as in hypersensitive Synonyms & Similar Words Relevance hypersensitive supersensitive oversensitive precise piercing sensitive sensible hyperacute accurate acute receptive subtle discerning perceptive clear sharp quick delicate good fine keen Antonyms & Near Antonyms bad insensitive dull dulled fading dead deadened numb imperceptive dimmed insensible inaccurate imprecise See More
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