hot potato

hot potato

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• n.〈非正式〉烫手山芋；棘手问题；【游】击鼓传花
• 网络棘手的问题；热土豆；难题

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The rule is to take the flashcard as a hot potato and pass it around very quickly while crying out the word, the quickest team will win.

玩法是把卡片当成烫手的土豆，一张张很快地传下去，边传边喊出那张卡片的单词，最后看哪个组完成得最快。

It had become a political hot potato, and time ran out as backers bickered over what tests to run.

它成了一个政治上的棘手问题，并且在支持者为竞选评价的争吵中耗尽了时间。

The question of whether to raise taxes to cut the budget deficit is a real hot potato for a lot of politicians.

对许多政客来说是否用提高税收来减少预算赤字的办法真的是一个很有争议的问题。

He learned that his idea would cost such a pile of money, he dropped it like a hot potato.

当他意识到他的方案需要很大一笔经费时，马上放弃了。

The principal thought it a hot potato to move the school to a new site.

一个校长认为把学校搬到新地方去是一个很棘手的问题。

Food is a political hot potato, and accounts for a third of the basket of goods used to calculate inflation.

食品在政治上是一个烫手山芋，而且在计算通货膨胀率的商品篮子中占了三分之一。

If you were looking for hot growth stocks, you would probably find Icon of interest but drop Knoll like a hot potato.

如果你在寻找高成长性的股票，你可能会对Icon很感兴趣而把Knoll当烫手山芋。

Soon after he allowed the young man to work in his office, the boss realized that he had been handed a hot potato.

老板刚一允许这个年轻人在他那里工作，他就意识到引来了麻烦。

So the questions must be dealt with carefully, the same way you would handle any other hot potato.

所以，这些问题必须谨慎处理，就好象你处理其他烫手山芋一样。

As soon as the Prime Minister realized the depth of opposition to his new proposal , he dropped it like a hot potato .

首相了解到人们强烈反对他的新提案之后，马上就把它撤消了。

I'm sure it has been a hot potato to many Chinese students.

我敢说对于大多数中国学生来说这都是个烫手山芋。

What happened yesterday was that he couldn't deal with the hot potato.

昨天产生的事便是他没能应付这个毒手的人。

The one with Hosni Mubarak (though not the one with Egypt itself) was dropped like a hot potato once the protests began.

美国同胡尼斯。穆巴拉克的关系，从抗议活动开始后就视其如烫手山芋般而弃之。

You probably would not want to hold a hot potato in your bare hands. This also means a problem or issue that no one wants to deal with.

你可能也不希望holdahotpotatoinyourbarehands（接手烫手山芋），意思是无人愿意处理的问题或争端。

This once again we confirm that the Japanese bureaucratic tradition, the hot potato issue be transferred to other departments of the style.

这再一次让我们确认了日本官场传统上，将烫手的山芋转给其他部门的作风问题。

The moment pakistan becomes irrelevant for Unkil and India you would drop it like a hot potato.

当巴基斯坦和乌克兰，印度撇清关系之后，你就会像烫手山芋一样扔开它。

It is really a hot potato for you, but it will add to your credit if you manage to do it.

这对于你来说的确很棘手，但你做好了就能为自己赢得荣誉。

One of the beauties of being a deputy is that when passed a hot potato you can always respond by handing it on to your boss.

做一位副手的优点之一就是，当你接过一个烫手的山芋时，你总能把它扔给老板。

But the breakdown of traditional family units, youth crime and binge drinking are a political hot potato for Mr Blair's government.

不过，对布莱尔政府来说，传统家庭单位的解体、青年犯罪和酗酒却是一个棘手的政治问题。

The racial discrimination issue was a political hot potato in the United States in the past.

在过去，种族歧视问题是美国政治上的一个棘手问题。

And it becomes a hot potato on clinical therapy with the increasing of intrinsic resistant to a large number of antibiotics.

由于它对许多抗生素具有很高的内在抗药性，这给目前临床上的治疗带来很大困难。

Pigs and people can swap mutations of the virus among themselves in a risky game of viral hot potato.

在令人头疼的病毒冒险游戏中，猪和人能够在相互之间交换病毒的变体。

Today, its power as a political hot potato has re-emerged with a sharp price rise in the past few weeks.

现如今，随着洋葱价格在过去几周大幅上涨，这种蔬菜制造政治困难的力量再度浮现出来。

In the meantime, passing the buck like a hot potato does not work.

同时，将美元像个烫手山芋一样推出去是做不到的。

Nonetheless, with first lady Michelle Obama urging everyone to get moving, obesity remains a political hot potato, or maybe a tater tot.

尽管michelleobama督促民众赶紧活动起来，肥胖依然是一个棘手的、成堆的政治问题。

Hot-potato router can arbitrarily choose one free output port without waiting, but it has the problem of livelock .

热土豆路由在路由器从不等待，任意选择一个空闲的端口进行发送，但却有活锁问题。

Last winter's reform of ruinous price subsidies was a hot potato that only he dared to touch.

去年冬天对离谱的价格补助进行的改革是个烫手山芋，只有他才敢触碰。

When she found out Jack was lying to her, she dropped him like a hot potato.

一发现杰克在骗她，她就把他给甩了。

The Mideast conflict is really a hot potato for all politicians around the world.

中东冲突对世界所有的政治家来说都是个老大难的问题。

Facing this hot potato, "think China and SK is so choose, will choose to quit moves? . . . "

面临这块烫手的山芋，赛思中国和SK是会选择退出，照样选择举动？

In English, if there's a delicate issue and people can't agree we call it a 'hot potato'.

在英国，如果有一个微妙的问题，人们会不同意我们称之为“烫手山芋”。

Abortion issue is a political hot potato in the United States.

在美国，堕胎问题是政治上很难解决的问题。

therefore , controling contamination in rainwater is a hot potato in technology of manual recharge groundwater.

因此，雨水中污染物的控制是利用雨水人工补给地下水技术中最棘手的问题。

Peace talks cnded up with nothing. It seems that we have to resort to force to handle this hot potato.

和谈毫无结果。看来我们不得不诉诸武力来解决这个“烫手山芋”了。

Mathematically, the hot potato (US dollars), will eventually return to the US.

从数学上分析，这些烫手山芋（这些美元）最终还得回到美国手里。

In other words, caspases pass NO to XIAP like a 'hot potato.

换句话说，半胱天冬酶将一氧化氮这一“烫手土豆”传递给了XIAP。

Eg. The unemployment is a real hot potato.

失业真是个棘手的问题。

This law is a hot potato that no one wants to deal with.

这项法律条款是没人愿意处理的敏感问题。

Now we are getting close to the meaning of "hot potato" .

现在我们将来深入了解“烤山芋”的含义。

'Whoever did the job would be politically assassinated, ' said one administration official. 'The car czar became a political hot potato.

一位政府官员说，无论由谁来充当“汽车沙皇”，他都会遭到政治上的暗杀，这一职位已经成了政坛上的一块烫手山芋。