time bomb

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.
    — At 9.40 a.m. on Bank Holiday Monday, August 5, a ganger found what was thought to be a time bomb at a level crossing at Tempsford, near Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, […] Inside one box was a brick; the other contained the works of an old alarm clock.
  2. A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date or time.
    — Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.
  3. A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time. figuratively
    — Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.

词形变化

time bombs plural timebomb alternative time-bomb alternative

词汇关系

衍生词
Vietnamese time bomb
相关词
accident waiting to happen

词源

From time + bomb.
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