They know that Iran is a powder keg, he says.

他说，他们知道伊朗是一个火药桶。

And their presence threatens to be the spark that light the powder keg.

他们的出现将点燃冲突的导火索。

First up, the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri says the small town's a powder keg.

首先让我们关注现在引发大讨论的枪击事件，密苏里州弗格森警察局的局长表示整个小城镇现在就是一个炸药桶。

He accused the Sarkozy government of lighting a powder keg by starting deregulation in the first place.

该调解人指责萨科齐政府从一开始放松管制就是玩火自焚的行为。

But the Afghan War would be the powder keg which blew the rotten Soviet state sky high.

而阿富汗战争像炸药桶一样，将已经腐朽的苏联炸了个半死。

The problem in France is the suburbs, they are like powder kegs. We really have to fix this problem.

问题在于法国的郊区, 它们就好比随时引爆的炸药桶。我们必须解决这个问题。

That is what powder keg means.

这就是火药桶的意思。

The country felt like a powder keg waiting to explode.

这个国家就像一个等待爆炸的火药桶。

People said the king had secretly stocked the fortress of the Bastille with gunpowder, so Paris was literally a powder keg waiting to happen.

人们说国王在巴士底狱秘密的安置了炸药，所以巴黎就象是个等着被点燃的火药桶。

You just set a match to a powder keg.

你刚往炸药桶扔了根火柴。

A city alderman says Milwaukee has been a powder keg for potential violence this summer.

一位市议员说，密尔沃基今年夏天一直是潜在暴力事件的火药桶。

You're like a powder keg, man. It's not like you.

你现在像个火药桶 你以前可不这样。

Looks like our shrink is sitting on a powder keg of secrets.

看来这心理医生正端坐在装满秘密的火药桶上。

Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.

【powder】自那次骚乱以来，这座城市就是一个随时可能爆炸的火药桶。

You know, you're like, Libertines is like a big powder keg with a very short fuse.

它总有些疯狂 令人放心不下。

So, this is a powder keg right now and this is something that we need cooler heads on both sides to be really beginning to prevail here.

所以，现在是一触即发的形势，双方都需要冷静下来。

The federalist fervor, which the exiles had pictured as a powder keg about to explode, had dissolved into a vague electoral illusion.

流亡者曾将联邦制的狂热描绘成一个即将爆炸的火药桶，现在已经化为一种模糊的选举幻觉。

But columnist Yavuz Baydar says the causes of that instability are still there — powder kegs waiting on the doorstep as the ruling party prepares to form the next government.

但是专栏作家雅乌兹·贝达尔表示，造成不稳定的原因仍然存在——目前执政党准备组建下届政府，危机可能随时爆发。

So a powder keg is like, oh boy, this is like a big old hunk of something that is ready to just destroy.

所以火药桶就像，天哪，这就像一个大块头的东西，随时准备摧毁。

Then you tack on high winds and extremely dry conditions, and you have a powder keg of worst case scenarios all lined up in one.

然后你在强风和极端干燥的条件下进行，你有一个火药桶， 所有最坏的情况都排成一列。