参考例句

1. a hair - trigger temper; a hair - trigger reaction.

   一触即怒的脾气；一触即发的反应

2. 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。

3. Plants that lack this brake end up with a hair -trigger response to infection, which helps them to snuff out a smouldering infection before it catches.

   ”缺少这种制动闸的植物最后对感染会有一触即发的反应，这有助于它们在发病前消灭潜伏的感染。

4. The continued reliance of the U.S. and Russia on thousands of nuclear weapons on hair -trigger alert only adds to the perceived need for nuclear arsenals in India and Pakistan.

   美国和俄罗斯继续依靠一触即发的数千核武器维持着平衡，反而加强了印度和巴基斯坦对建立核武器库的必要性的认识。

5. The inmates were asleep, but it was a sleep that was set on a hair -trigger , on account of the exciting episode of the night. A call came from a window:

   里面的人还在睡觉，可是由于夜里那桩惊人的事情，大家变得十分警惕，窗户里传出了一句问话：

6. In one, Iran ends up with nuclear weapons, bringing new instability and a hair -trigger face-off with nuclear Israel into one of the world's least-safe neighbourhoods.

   第一，伊朗停止会带来新一轮的不稳定和使以色列从千钧一发的核对峙到最不安全的领国的核试验。

7. 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。

8. According to the Brady Report, $60 billion to $90 billion of equities were poised on this hair trigger in mid-October of 1987.

   根据一份研究报告显示：有高达600亿到900亿的股票投资在1987年十月中面临一触即发的险境。