1·Unemployment is building up into a social time bomb across the industrialized world.
失业正成为工业化社会中的一种社会性潜在破坏因素。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
2·The object you make is already a time bomb.
你做出来的东西迟早都会出问题。
3·At the very least, Paulson's unprecedented move defuses one ticking time bomb.
至少，保尔森史无前例的行为解除了一个一直可能随时爆炸的危机。
4·The tasks facing Japan are staggering. But a country does not live on a geological time bomb without some accommodation by the national psyche.
虽然日本任重道远，但是处在这样一个危机重重地地理位置上，日本人的国民性必然有所适应。
5·"Instead, it's a time bomb" Just because it took almost 40 years for cancer to hit me, I emphasized, players shouldn't think they could wait to worry about it.
我强调说，球员们可不要因为我食用它近四十年后才患上癌症，就认为他们眼下担心此事为时太早。“口嚼烟致癌也有可能比我患上癌症快得多。
6·The bomb consists of countries that have a combination of budget deficit and borrowings relative to GDP which puts them into the category "Time bomb" or high risk of default.
这个炸弹的入选国的债务相对于GDP都非常高，随时都可能爆炸或主权违约。
7·He was priming the bomb to go off in an hour's time.
他在事先准备炸弹在一小时后爆炸。
—— 《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》
8·Those who want to ban the bomb for American citizens claim that if you have one locked in the cabinet, with the fuse in a drawer, you would never be able to assemble it in time to stop an intruder.
那些希望禁止美国公民使用这种炸弹的人声称，如果你把一枚炸弹锁在柜子里，把导火线放在抽屉里，你就永远无法及时组装起来，阻止入侵者。
9·Then Bem drops his bomb: "The results show that practicing a set of words after the recall test does, in fact, reach back in time to facilitate the recall of those words."
然后，本扔下了一记重磅炸弹：“结果表明，在回忆测试后进行的一组单词的练习的确反向穿越了时间，因而促进了受试者对这些单词的回忆。”
10·However, this time it was not a bomb being dropped upon us, but a mistake committed by our very own hands.
但这一次并非有人在我们领空投掷核弹，而是一次我们亲手酿成的错误。