powder keg

Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.

除非这些问题得到解决，否则该地区会一直是个火药桶。

3: Despite all the diplomatic efforts to achieve peace, Yugoslavia is still a powder keg waiting for a match to set off another round of fighting between the warring factions.

他说：尽管人们在南斯拉夫作了种种外交努力希望实现和平，但是那里的危局仍会一触即发；星星之火就能使交战各方间再次爆发战斗。这里的powder keg用来比喻一触即发的危局。

A large number of rural vulnerable groups will not only affect the realization of the objective of social justice, but also become the "powder keg" which affects social stability and development.

大量农村弱势群体的存在会影响社会公正目标的实现，也是影响社会稳定发展的火药桶。

Global poverty is a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

贫穷有可能被我们的漠不关心激化而成为火药桶.

The region is already a powder keg.

那是一个危险地区。

This whole place is a powder keg!

这地方成了个火药库!

It is a stereotype, but none the less true, that the Balkans is a powder keg needing only a single spark to explode.

巴尔干地区是个点火就爆炸的火药桶&这固然是老生常谈，但也是千真万确。

This made the Middle East the powder keg.

这使中东成了一只火药桶.

These disputes make this reign as an European" powder keg", which eventually led to the First World War.

这些矛盾使得这里成为欧洲的火药桶，最终导致第一次世界大战的爆发。

Government's debt of huge villages and towns, can be compared to a potential powder keg, become the hidden danger of influencing the rural social stability.

巨额乡镇政府债务，好比一个潜在的火药桶，成为影响农村社会稳定的隐患。

And one day the powder keg may explode.

有朝一日埃及这个火药桶可能会爆炸。

If so, you've got a powder keg.

倘若果真如此，这个人就像一个正在形成的火药桶。

This is a powder keg.

这已经成为一个火药桶。

Global poverty a powder keg that could be ignited by our indifference.

贫穷有可能被我们的莫不关心激化而成为火药桶.

Yet the country is also often considered a powder keg.

但埃及也经常被视作一个火药桶。

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

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。

Then all you need is a small sparking of the powder keg, and it's on.

接下来你需要就是在这个火药桶上放上点小火星, 然后,它就爆炸了.