hair-trigger [
'hɛr'trɪgɚ]
a. 一触即发的, 一碰就坏的, 即时的
- The moment any foreign object with wheels or legs comes near the house, his hair-trigger bark alarm goes off.
一旦任何陌生来客——无论是长轮子的还是长腿的——靠近房子,他就会发出警告的咆哮,令人毛发倒竖。 - The ex-president is thick-skinned about tabloids but hair-trigger sensitive when it comes to his record, especially on terrorism.
这位前总统对小报上有关他的花边新闻早已感觉迟钝,但在涉及到他的政绩,尤其是与恐怖主义有关的问题时,他就变得极其敏感。 - And neither does the hostility that once led both our countries to keep thousands of nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, pointed at each other.
导致两国将数千枚核武器指向对方,随时处于一触即发戒备状态的那种敌意也已不复存在。
- Once it was a hair-trigger deal stock that helped cause the stock market's 190-point plunge in October 1989.
- UAL, the hair-trigger stock that exploded Friday's market bombshell, briefly traumatized traders again yesterday.
- The purpose of the trip was forced to change, and since it has become a hair-trigger crisis, we made that decision," Kaifu said in brief comments to reporters.
- Jordan's King Hussein, in an interview last weekend, likened the rising tension to the hair-trigger period before the June 1967 Arab-Israeli war.
- U.S. helicopters sank three Iranian patrol boats in a return of fire that vividly illustrated the hair-trigger tensions in the Persian Gulf.
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