They know that Iran is a powder keg, he says.

他说，他们知道伊朗是一个火药桶。

First up, the police chief of Ferguson, Missouri says the small town's a powder keg.

首先让我们关注现在引发大讨论的枪击事件，密苏里州弗格森警察局的局长表示整个小城镇现在就是一个炸药桶。

He accused the Sarkozy government of lighting a powder keg by starting deregulation in the first place.

该调解人指责萨科齐政府从一开始放松管制就是玩火自焚的行为。

The country felt like a powder keg waiting to explode.

这个国家就像一个等待爆炸的火药桶。

You just set a match to a powder keg.

你刚往炸药桶扔了根火柴。

A city alderman says Milwaukee has been a powder keg for potential violence this summer.

一位市议员说，密尔沃基今年夏天一直是潜在暴力事件的火药桶。

You're like a powder keg, man. It's not like you.

你现在像个火药桶 你以前可不这样。

Looks like our shrink is sitting on a powder keg of secrets.

看来这心理医生正端坐在装满秘密的火药桶上。

Since the riot, the city has been a powder keg waiting to explode.

【powder】自那次骚乱以来，这座城市就是一个随时可能爆炸的火药桶。

People said the king had secretly stocked the fortress of the Bastille with gunpowder, so Paris was literally a powder keg waiting to happen.

人们说国王在巴士底狱秘密的安置了炸药，所以巴黎就象是个等着被点燃的火药桶。

The federalist fervor, which the exiles had pictured as a powder keg about to explode, had dissolved into a vague electoral illusion.

流亡者曾将联邦制的狂热描绘成一个即将爆炸的火药桶，现在已经化为一种模糊的选举幻觉。

So, this is a powder keg right now and this is something that we need cooler heads on both sides to be really beginning to prevail here.

所以，现在是一触即发的形势，双方都需要冷静下来。

So a powder keg is like, oh boy, this is like a big old hunk of something that is ready to just destroy.

所以火药桶就像，天哪，这就像一个大块头的东西，随时准备摧毁。

Then you tack on high winds and extremely dry conditions, and you have a powder keg of worst case scenarios all lined up in one.

然后你在强风和极端干燥的条件下进行，你有一个火药桶， 所有最坏的情况都排成一列。

Here a powder keg is specifically referring to a kind of in the old days, you would have these big kegs or these big like wooden barrels full of gunpowder.

这里的火药桶特指一种在过去，你会有这些大桶或这些装满火药的大木桶。