hot potato
n.
棘手的人[问题]；烫手的山芋；
变形
复数：hot potatoes
英英释义
hot potato
n.a difficult situation
双语例句
用作名词(n.)
Money policy is fast becoming a hot potato.
货币政策很快地成为一个棘手难题。
Every one can see how the boss looks when he handles a hot potato.
老板处理难题时，每个人都看出他是什么表情。
The unemployment is a real hot potato.
失业真是个棘手的问题。
She has many hot potatoes to handle eery day.
她每天都要处理很多棘手的问题。
权威例句
HOT POTATOHot potato
Hot potato
Oscar Williams (filmmaker)
Near-optimal Hot-potato
Dynamics of hot-potato routing in IP networks
A simultaneous trade model of the foreign exchange hot potato
Multihop lightwave networks: a comparison of store-and-forward and hot-potato routing
Exact analysis of hot-potato routing
Network sensitivity to hot-potato disruptions
Analysis and comparison of hot-potato and single-buffer deflection routing in very high bit rate optical mesh networks
Multihop lightwave networks: a comparison of store-and-forward and hot-potato routing
Analysis of Hot-Potato Optical Networks with Wavelength Conversion
1. Warm up with a hot potato.
用一个热土豆来取暖。
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2. When my voice hit a certain decibel, I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.
当我的声音达到一定分贝时，我就像一个令人易怒的热土豆一样被移交给技术员。
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3. But as volume increased, traders started to buy and resell them in what the report calls a "hot potato" effect.
但随着交易量的上升，操盘手开始以报告中所述的“热土豆效应”买进卖出。
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4. Eventually those dollars will come home, they have to, as a function of math. In the meantime, passing the buck like a hot potato does not work.
从数学的功能上说，最终这些美元将必须回到美国。同时，将美元像个烫手山芋一样推出去是做不到的。
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5. In the meantime, passing the buck like a hot potato does not work.
同时，将美元像个烫手山芋一样推出去是做不到的。
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6. The hot potato flew farther: IFAD's board acknowledged its "Shared responsibility"; but it also blamed poor guidance from a committee that deals with pay and allowances.
责任越传越广：IFAD的理事会了解到他们的“应分担的责任”，但他们也在怪罪一个负责支付和津贴的委员会，说他们引导不力。
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7. One of the beauties of being a deputy is that when passed a hot potato you can always respond by handing it on to your boss.
做一位副手的优点之一就是，当你接过一个烫手的山芋时，你总能把它扔给老板。
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8. Eritrea has always been a bit of a hot potato.
厄立特里亚也确实有点像烫手山芋。
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9. He dropped the topic like a hot potato.
他抛开这个问题，就像丢掉一块烫手的山芋一样。
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10. Mathematically, the hot potato (US dollars), will eventually return to the US.
从数学上分析，这些烫手山芋（这些美元）最终还得回到美国手里。
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11. You probably would not want to hold a hot potato in your bare hands. This also means a problem or issue that no one wants to deal with.
你可能也不希望holdahot potatoinyour bare hands(接手烫手山芋)，意思是无人愿意处理的问题或争端。
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12. If you were looking for hot growth stocks, you would probably find Icon of interest but drop Knoll like a hot potato.
如果你在寻找高成长性的股票，你可能会对Icon很感兴趣而把Knoll当烫手山芋。
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13. One such hot potato is taxes.
其中一个这样烤土豆就是税。
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14. These advertisements are also called "psoriasis", which becomes a hot potato in the aspect of environmental governance.
这些广告也被称为“牛皮癣”，已经成为在环境治理方面的烫手山芋了。
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15. The inappropriate using of the MED attribute commonly induces to the hot potato routing and the persistent MED oscillation.
MED属性的使用不当通常会引起热土豆路由和MED振荡。
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16. The unemployment is a real hot potato.
失业真是个棘手的问题。
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17. The words "hot potato", for example, give you no idea at all to the meaning of the expression, hot potato.
例如，“烤山芋”根本就让你搞不清它表达的意思是“困境”。
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18. Hot Potato is the kind of sport where you don't want to be left holding the ball.
烫手的山芋是一种你不想拿着球的一种运动。
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19. This seems to be something of a hot potato among fans.
这似乎是一个烫手的山芋粉丝之间的事。
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20. Managers complain that rather than confronting problems, employees use email to avoid them by passing issues back and forth in long message strings, like a hot potato.
公司经理们抱怨说，员工利用电子邮件逃避问题而非解决问题，把事情像烫手的山芋一样推来推去。
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21. Now we are getting close to the meaning of "hot potato".
现在我们将来深入了解“烤山芋”的含义。
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22. The tariff issue is a hot potato in our department; no one deals with it.
关税问题在我们部门是一个棘手问题，没有人能处理。
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23. The tariff issue is a hot potato in our department; no one deals with it.
关税问题在我们部门是一个棘手问题，没有人能处理。
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