Well before he died of cancer in 2008, Harold Pinter knew he had earned a reputation for being "enigmatic, taciturn, terse, prickly, explosive and forbidding".

早在2008年哈罗德·品特因癌症去世之前，他就知道了自己赢得了“高深莫测、沉默寡言、简洁、多刺、暴躁以及令人生畏”的名声。

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The explosive mixture in a rocket consists of both a fuel and a supply of oxygen.

火箭中的爆炸性混合物包括燃料和氧气供应。

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These are volcanoes so explosive that they burst open in a single big crack.

这些火山爆炸性极强，爆发瞬间出现了一道大裂缝。

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"Land is a major social and political issue,very explosive and very much inclined to provoke a lot of conflict in different parts of the country.

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And so, he has put this chemistry to use in this robotic arm and they call it Fido, because often dogs are the creatures that have to go out and detect these things, and it's not a great job if you're a dog to be sent out to see whether there was an explosive and discover yes, there was, a little bit too late.

因为通常都是派狗去检查这些东西,这个不是个好工作，如果你是一只狗,被派去检查是否有爆炸物，然后你发现有,那就来不及了,所以用机器手检查化学物质。

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This could be a vegetarian dog, a poison apple, an explosive chair, but they're typically true.

这可能是吃素的狗，有毒的苹果，会爆炸的椅子，但这种刻板印象通常都是对的。

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As it turned out, authorities' decision to rely on every tool at their disposal was a wise one: Dykes had planted an explosive device in a ventilation pipe he'd told negotiators to use to communicate with him on his property in the rural Alabama community of Midland City, and also placed another explosive device inside the bunker, the FBI said in a statement late Tuesday.

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Perhaps he hatched an elaborate plot to steal sensitive code as explosive as a Wikileak.

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So what could be more explosive than a mix of both passions, war and peas?

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