Our bodies are ticking time bombs.

我们的身体就像定时炸弹。

And it's placing the city on a time bomb.

它将这座城市置于定时炸弹上。

Today's phrase is " time bomb, " from the movie The Big Short.

今天的短语是 time bomb，出自电影《大空头》。

The time bomb went off at 10, killing all the people around.

那枚定时炸弹在10点钟引爆，周围所有的人全部丧生。

Without exaggeration, American debt is a ticking time bomb that will detonate unless we take serious, responsible action.

毫不夸张地说，美国的债务是一个滴答作响的定时炸弹，除非我们采取认真、负责任的行动，否则它就会被引爆。

It's as though he's a time bomb and he's just waiting to go off which he does.

就好像他是一颗定时炸弹，他就等着爆炸，他确实爆炸了。

Arab League Secretary-General Ahmed Aboul-Gheit has slammed Israel's violent policies against the Palestinians as " a time bomb" .

阿拉伯联盟秘书长艾哈迈德·阿布尔-盖特抨击以色列对巴勒斯坦人的暴力政策是“定时炸弹”。

And this time, in addition to the dripping time bomb in the mountains, Corcoran has many feet lower in elevation.

这一次，除了山上滴落的定时炸弹，科科伦的海拔比往常低了很多英尺。

We must diffuse this ticking time bomb.

SLAT：我们必须消除这颗滴答作响的定时炸弹。

First time you bombed an audition.

你第一次炸毁试镜。

People knew about what had happened to me and thought I was a walking time bomb.

人们知道发生在我身上的事， 并认为我是一颗行走的定时炸弹。

He calls coal a " time bomb" that also could lead to heavy metal pollution and acid rain.

他称煤炭是“定时炸弹” ，也可能导致重金属污染和酸雨。

" It's like baking a cake: If you don't have exact amounts, it goes wrong, " she says. " The object you make is already a time bomb."

“这就像烤蛋糕：如果你没有精确的量，就会出错。” 她说。“你造的东西已经是定时炸弹了。”

You are a walking time bomb; the very planet is your predator, the air is pervasive with invisible threats that lay in wait to finish you off.

你是一颗行走的定时炸弹； 这个星球就是你的捕食者，空气中弥漫着无形的威胁， 它们正等着把你干掉。

And a new study says fires in the boreal forests of North America and Eurasia are a ticking time bomb with greenhouse gas emissions increasing over the last twenty years.

一项新的研究表明，北美和欧亚大陆北方森林的火灾是一颗定时炸弹，在过去 20 年里，温室气体排放量不断增加。

Scrambling with Russia to race to see who can drill in the Arctic first is like racing to see who can light the fuse on a time bomb.

与俄罗斯争先恐后地比拼谁能先在北极钻井，就像比拼谁能点燃定时炸弹的导火索。

Adding it all together— our feeling of never having enough time, the chronic aggravation caused by technology, and our endless, diffuse sense of stress— we become time bombs waiting to explode.

把这些加在一起——我们总是觉得没有足够的时间，技术导致的慢性恶化，以及我们无休止的、弥漫的压力感——我们就成了等待爆炸的定时炸弹。

Well, the first thing that we need to do is to essentially hire, train and retain many more workers who will be doing the hard work of defusing the time bombs inside our western forests.

好吧，我们需要做的第一件事基本上是雇佣、培训和留住更多的工人，他们将承担在我们西部的森林里拆除定时炸弹的艰巨工作。

According to the UN Environment Programme, cutting annual emissions of methane by 45% could prevent 255,000 premature deaths per year,which are traced to air pollution problems. Now remember that methane time bomb I mentioned before?

根据联合国环境规划署的数据，每年将甲烷排放量减少 45% 可以防止每年 255, 000 人因空气污染问题而过早死亡。 现在还记得我之前提到的甲烷定时炸弹吗？