flashpoint

noun

1. （暴力或愤怒的）一触即发，危机即将爆发的地点
   a situation or place in which violence or anger starts and cannot be controlled
   1. Tension in the city is rapidly reaching flashpoint.
      这座城市处于紧张状态，大有一触即发之势。
   2. potential flashpoints in the south of the country
      该国南部潜在的暴力爆发点

1. N-VAR (尤指政治动乱的)爆发点，一触即发之际
   A flashpoint is the moment at which a conflict, especially a political conflict, suddenly gets worse and becomes violent.
   1. The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday's big rally in the city centre...
      星期三市中心的大集会成了直接的导火索。
   2. There are still plenty of potential flashpoints in relations between the two countries.
      两国关系中仍然有很多潜在的冲突爆发点。
2. N-COUNT 政治动乱地区;危险地区
   A flashpoint is a place which people think is dangerous because political trouble may start there and then spread to other towns or countries.
   1. The more serious flashpoints are outside the capital...
      更加危险的动乱区在首都之外。
   2. It could become the next Balkan flashpoint.
      它可能成为巴尔干地区的下一个火药桶。

1. The immediate flashpoint was Wednesday's big rally in the city centre
   星期三市中心的大集会成了直接的导火索。
2. There are still plenty of potential flashpoints in relations between the two countries.
   两国关系中仍然有很多潜在的冲突爆发点。
3. The more serious flashpoints are outside the capital
   更加危险的动乱区在首都之外。
4. It could become the next Balkan flashpoint.
   它可能成为巴尔干地区的下一个火药桶。
5. With the European sovereign debt imbroglio taking a breather for the moment, there is increasing concern on Wall Street that Japan could be the next major flashpoint in the ongoing global financial crisis.
   欧洲主权债务危机刚刚获得喘息之机，然而，就在此时，华尔街又开始越来越担心日本可能成为这场全球金融危机的下一个引爆点。
6. The Montgomery bus boycott was a flashpoint for the American civil rights movement.
   蒙哥马利抵制公交车事件是美国民权运动中的一大热点。
7. Our foundation began working in India a decade ago, at a time when many feared that the country would become a flashpoint for HIV/ AIDS.
   我们的基金会10年前开始在印度开展工作，当时许多人担心印度会成为艾滋病的导火索。
8. One Palestinian resident of the West Bank city of Hebron, a frequent flashpoint for tensions between Arabs and Jews, lives across the barbed wire fence of the Kiryat Arba Jewish settlement.
   约旦河西岸城市希伯伦是阿拉伯人和犹太人频繁发生冲突的一个地方。那里的一名巴勒斯坦居民居住在用铁丝网隔开的基亚特·阿巴犹太人定居点对面。
9. Such high prices in Hong Kong have increasingly served as a flashpoint for local anger, particularly given the influx of mainland buyers in the past few years, which has helped bid up prices in a city already parched for affordable housing.
   如此高的房价在当地引起了越来越多的民怨，特别是考虑到过去几年内地买家涌入本已极缺便宜住房的香港，从一定程度上造成当地房价进一步走高。
10. Taiwan remains a potential flashpoint.
    台湾仍是一个潜在的火药桶。
11. But he pushed back strongly against international pressure on the level of the exchange rate, which is becoming a flashpoint in relations with the US.
    但他强烈抵制国际间对人民币汇率水平的施压这已成为中美关系的一个引爆点。
12. Clause 6.6 of the term sheet, which outlines procedures for handling conflicting capital spending plans, could be a flashpoint.
    双方合资协议中的第6.6条列出了处理相互冲突的资本开支计划的程序，这一条款可能成为矛盾的引爆点。
13. Flashpoint uses spawning extensively to add and remove soldiers and vehicles from the world and replace dead soldiers.
    闪点广泛使用重构方式从虚拟世界中添加或移除或者替换士兵和车辆。
14. A second flashpoint is the rich world's monetary policy, particularly the prospect that central banks may soon restart printing money to buy government bonds.
    第二个争议点是发达国家的货币政策，尤其是央行可能会很快开始印发纸币来购买政府债券这一预期行为。
15. However another potential flashpoint is the visit to China next month of Barack Obama, US president.
    不过，美国总统巴拉克奥巴马（barackobama）下月访华是又一个潜在的触发点。
16. The obvious flashpoint is Taiwan.
    一个明显的导火索是台湾。
17. Sheba Farms has long been a flashpoint for conflict in the region.
    萨巴阿农场一直都是这一地区引发战争的导火线。
18. Not for the first time, this semi-annual ruling threatened to be a flashpoint in US-China relations.
    该半年度裁决可能会成为中美关系激化的引爆点，而这已不是第一次了。
19. Wisconsin is the flashpoint for a national struggle over efforts to roll back pay and union rights of state and local government workers.
    在这场政府削减开支和公务员工会运动的争斗中，威斯康辛是一个爆发点。
20. Facial recognition has the potential to be the next privacy flashpoint.
    人脸识别有可能成为下一场隐私争议的引爆点。
21. If that is right, Taiwan could yet turn out to be an international flashpoint that, mercifully, will never flash.
    如果这种看法正确，那么台湾仍可能幸运地变成一个永远不着火的国际闪点。
22. Which is safer than gas and has a higher flashpoint, doesn't it?
    比汽油安全，而且动力充沛，不是么？
23. If there is one flashpoint in relations between investment banks and governments and one reason bankers remain unpopular it is pay.
    如果说投资银行和政府之间的关系有什么一触即着的引爆点，那就是薪酬这也是银行家至今仍然不受人待见的原因之一。
24. The issue became a flashpoint during the 2003 SARS epidemic.
    2003年非典期间，这个问题成为争论焦点。
25. The Delhi leg was a flashpoint for the torch on its world tour.
    在奥运火炬的全球传递过程中，新德里是个最容易爆发抗议之地。
26. One editorial in a state-run news service warned that water issues could easily escalate into a "flashpoint" for protest and dubbed the Changzhi incident "Watergate".
    官方新闻社的一篇社评称，饮水问题很可能升级，变成抗议导火线，该文还把长治的泄漏事故称为水门事件。
27. But unless the renminbi is allowed to find its own level, it risks becoming even more of a political flashpoint than it already is.
    但是，除非允许人民币找到自己的合适汇率水平，否则它有可能在更大程度上成为政治闪点。
28. And over the years, the Copyright Clause has become a flashpoint for just such abuse.
    这些年来，著作权条款已经变成权利滥用的闪点。
29. Taiwan is ever a potential flashpoint.
    台湾问题历来是一个潜在的引爆点。
30. Because the Taiwan Strait is a potential flashpoint for conflict, the area demands our constant attention.
    因为台湾海峡是一个潜在的冲突爆发地区，该地区需求的不断关注。

noun

1. the lowest temperature at which the vapor of a combustible liquid can be ignited in air

   Synonym:    flash point

2. point at which something is ready to blow up

   Synonym:    flash point