a hot potato的意思|示意
烫手山芋(棘手的问题)
a hot potato的用法详解
这个短语的字面意思是“一个热土豆”,但在英语中,这个短语用作形容词,意指“很难处理的问题,需要立即解决的问题”。
表达方式有:
1. 可以和“be”连用,形成结构“be a hot potato”或“be a hot potato issue”,比如:
This issue has become a hot potato.
这个问题已经成为一个很难处理的问题了。
2. 还可以用于“handling hot potatoes”,表示“dealing with difficult problems”,比如:
It is a job that demands skill in handling hot potatoes.
这是一项要求在处理难题上有技巧的工作。
3. 还可以说“drop the hot potato”,表示“give up trying to solve the problem”,比如:
The government dropped the hot potato of unemployment and sought a new solution.
政府放弃了处理失业问题,寻求新的解决方案。
a hot potato相关短语
1、 drop like a hot potato 急忙抛弃,尽快地断绝关系
2、 handle a hot potato 处理难题
3、 Is a hot potato for 是个烫手山芋了
4、 handle a hot potato detail 处理难题
5、 drosomething like a hot potato 赶紧抛弃
a hot potato相关例句
If I were you, I'd drop that client a hot potato.
假如我是你的话, 我就把那个难以应付的顾客马上甩掉.
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However, the dollar is a hot potato, tasteless but wasteful to discard.
但是, 现在的美元是烫手的山芋, 食之无味,弃之可惜.
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When we learned of the conviction, we dropped him like a hot potato.
听说他判了罪, 我们立即和他中断了往来.
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Steve: It'sure is. If you were broke, she'd drop you like a hot potato.
史蒂夫: 当然啊! 如果你口袋没钱了, 你就会像烫手山芋一样被她甩掉.
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The Mideast conflict is really a hot potato for all politicians around the world.
中东问题对世界所有的政治家来说都是个烫手的山芋.
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Mon operating strategy, a hot potato? Do not do it in the bird cage.
周一操作策略, 烫手的山芋谁来接? 不要去做笼中鸟.
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