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powder keg

火药桶,粉桶,粉末桶,粉壶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a small, metal, barrellike container for gunpowder or blasting powder.
    • : a potentially dangerous situation, especially one involving violent repercussions.

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Examples

  • Instead, we were confined and crammed into boardrooms and claustrophobic strategy sessions, the expanse of the series’ setpieces packed into a powder keg.

  • Chile’s transformation from a neoliberal experiment led by Milton Friedman’s “Chicago Boys” to a powder keg of leftist activism is one not many saw coming.

  • Then the big concern is what happens over the weekend when Ida enters the Gulf of Mexico, a meteorological powder keg.

  • It’s a powder keg waiting to explode unless the police and army are able to enforce the rule of law.

  • For all that they poke fun at Josh’s cub-reporter opportunism, Schur, Helms and Ornelas—a Navajo showrunner leading a rare staff of Indigenous writers, Schmieding among them—also clearly see Rutherford Falls as an allegorical powder keg.

  • Place the flour, baking soda, baking powder, and salt on parchment or wax paper.

  • Other versions are coated in marzipan, or dusted in powder sugar.

  • This powder can be shipped anywhere and then reconstituted—just add water, as if it were instant coffee.

  • So the new inhaled powder measles vaccine may in a few years turn out to be an easier way to protect kids from measles.

  • They say that the Israelis framed him in order to light the powder keg of religious war over the al-Aqsa compound.

  • If old Piegan Smith hadn't been sampling the contents of that keg so industriously he would never have made a break.

  • The law went into operation in England imposing a tax on wearing hair powder.

  • The girl began to hum, as she powdered her nose with a white glove, lying in a powder box.

  • Steam machinery would accomplish more than nine-tenths of all the work, besides saving the expense of all the powder.

  • When first seen it is said to have had a pasty consistency, but on exposure to the air it dried and crumbled into powder.