"Instead, it's a time bomb" Just because it took almost 40 years for cancer to hit me, I emphasized, players shouldn't think they could wait to worry about it.

我强调说，球员们可不要因为我食用它近四十年后才患上癌症，就认为他们眼下担心此事为时太早。“口嚼烟致癌也有可能比我患上癌症快得多。

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Unemployment is building up into a social time bomb across the industrialized world.

失业正成为工业化社会中的一种社会性潜在破坏因素。

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Then Bem drops his bomb: "The results show that practicing a set of words after the recall test does, in fact, reach back in time to facilitate the recall of those words."

然后，本扔下了一记重磅炸弹：“结果表明，在回忆测试后进行的一组单词的练习的确反向穿越了时间，因而促进了受试者对这些单词的回忆。”

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It is a ticking time bomb for the federal budget.

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She's a nightmare wedding guest, a time bomb waiting for the moment of maximum impact.

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But there's a paradox buried inside Paul's rise in the Republican field, a time bomb ticking away.

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Add the all-important price of oil to the equation and it begins to look like a time bomb.

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