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。

The jobs numbers touched off a rally on Wall Street.

就业数据引发了华尔街的反弹。

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。

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。