Our bodies are ticking time bombs.

我们的身体就像定时炸弹。

And if you don't deal with them, you might become a ticking bomb waiting to explode.

如果你不处理这些情绪，你可能会成为一个定时炸弹，等待爆炸。

Without exaggeration, American debt is a ticking time bomb that will detonate unless we take serious, responsible action.

毫不夸张地说，美国的债务是一个滴答作响的定时炸弹，除非我们采取认真、负责任的行动，否则它就会被引爆。

We must diffuse this ticking time bomb.

SLAT：我们必须消除这颗滴答作响的定时炸弹。

And a new study says fires in the boreal forests of North America and Eurasia are a ticking time bomb with greenhouse gas emissions increasing over the last twenty years.

一项新的研究表明，北美和欧亚大陆北方森林的火灾是一颗定时炸弹，在过去 20 年里，温室气体排放量不断增加。

It would take Iran less than a week to enrich enough uranium for a single nuclear weapon, and that's why this is literally a ticking bomb, and there needs to be a solution one way or another to curb Iran's nuclear activities.

伊朗需要不到一周的时间来浓缩足够制造一枚核武器的铀，这就是为什么这真的是一枚定时炸弹，而且需要有一个这样或那样的解决方案来遏制伊朗的核活动。