But rain threatened to touch off new slides.

但降雨可能引发新的滑坡。

In Southern Israel, schools remained closed. A Sunday rocket attack on Israel touched off the fighting.

在以色列南部，学校依然停课，周日针对以色列的火箭弹袭击引发了激战。

Expectations of future price increases converged around central-bank targets, touching off an era of long expansions and mild recessions.

因此, 未来价格增长预期趋近中央银行指定的目标, 即价格会缓慢增长或下降。

When word of the surrender reached the nearby Union headquarters it touched off a spree of cannon firing.

当投降的消息传到附近的联军总部时，人们开始鸣炮庆祝。

The storm could bring a foot of rain and touch off flash floods and mudslides.

这场风暴可能带来一英尺的降雨量，并引发山洪暴发和泥石流。

At least 14 inches of rain touched off flash floods that stranded cars and closed highways.

至少14英寸的降雨引发了山洪，导致汽车搁浅，高速公路关闭。

For U.S. officials, the key is to avoid miscalculations that, in the worst case, could touch off a nuclear conflict.

对美国官员来说，关键是避免引发核冲突的错误。

Heavy rain and melting snow had turned rivers into torrents, washing away houses and touching off rock and mud slides.

受暴雨和融化的积雪影响，河流变成了急流，冲走了房屋，引发了岩石滑动和泥石流。

The jobs numbers touched off a rally on Wall Street.

就业数据引发了华尔街的反弹。

Officials say a walkway collapsed and touched off chaos. It happened during an annual pilgrimage that drew hundreds of thousands of worshipers.

官方称人行通道倒塌，并引发骚乱，事故发生在年度朝圣之旅，数十万礼拜者参加。

It was these national rivalries that eventually touched off the First World War.

【touch】正是国家之间的这些竞争最终引发了第一次世界大战。

" Don't expect a show such as you got when I touched off the last fuse" .

“当我触发最后一根导火索时， 不要指望像你这样的表演” 。

And something else that we touched on off air is that fires can also kill off invasive species.

我们在广播中谈到的另一件事是，火灾也可以杀死入侵物种。

A section of Interstate 55 and Central Illinois was closed again late today as a precaution a day after a dust storm touched off deadly pile-ups.

今天晚些时候，55号州际公路和伊利诺斯州中部的部分路段再次关闭，此前一天，一场沙尘暴引发了致命的连环事故。

He came back to Portugal the next year with a load of spices which not only brought a huge profit but touched off a frenzy of exploration.

他第二年回到葡萄牙的时候带回了很多香料这不仅带来了很多利润还引发了探索狂热。

He has sort of touched off this process, which fundamentally could weaken him in the long term, even if in the short term he survives.

他有点触发了这个过程，从长远来看， 这从根本上削弱了他，即使在短期内他活了下来。

This met the dictates 'of the Ius Fetiales, that is to say it meant that the Carthaginians started it and it touched off what we call the first Punic War.

这就符合了和平条约的内容，也就是说是迦太基人开启了战争这也就触发了第一次布匿战役。

For one thing the deaths of Aztec and Incan rulers touched off wars which made it easier to spread disease, because you know, the number one way to catch smallpox is via hand-to-hand combat.

一方面，阿兹特克和印加统治者的死亡引发了战争，这使得疾病更容易传播，因为你知道，感染天花的首要方法是通过肉搏战。

Similar soot can still be found in ancient rocks from volcanic fires of 66 million years ago, a record of the cataclysm touched off by an asteroid at the end of the late Cretaceous epoch.

类似的烟灰仍然可以在 6600 万年前火山大火的古老岩石中找到，这是白垩纪末期一颗小行星引发的灾难的记录。