英语释义

• a difficult situation;

  "he dropped the topic like a hot potato"

片语

Hot German Potato Salad德式土豆沙拉

hot fried potato热油炸土豆

SOUR AND HOT SHREDDED POTATO酸辣土豆丝

Hot-potato Routing热马铃薯路由选择

Pass the Hot Potato传土豆游戏

Hot chip potato日本摇滚乐

hot t potato烫手山芋

hot potato algorithm烫山芋算法

英汉例句

• in the meantime, passing the buck like a hot potato does not work.

  同时，将美元像个烫手山芋一样推出去是做不到的。

• mathematically, the hot potato (us dollars), will eventually return to the us.

  从数学上分析，这些烫手山芋（这些美元）最终还得回到美国手里。

• the question of whether to raise taxes to cut the budget deficit is a real hot potato for a lot of politicians.

  这个人说：「是否用增加税收的方法来减少预算赤字的问题对于许多政客来说是一个棘手的问题。」

• the tariff issue is a hot potato in our department; no one deals with it.

  关税问题在我们部门是一个棘手问题，没有人能处理。

• you probably would not want to hold a hot potato in your bare hands. this also means a problem or issue that no one wants to deal with.

  你可能也不希望holdahot potatoinyourbarehands（接手烫手山芋），意思是无人愿意处理的问题或争端。

• one of the beauties of being a deputy is that when passed a hot potato you can always respond by handing it on to your boss.

  做一位副手的优点之一就是，当你接过一个烫手的山芋时，你总能把它扔给老板。

• eventually those dollars will come home, they have to, as a function of math. in the meantime, passing the buck like a hot potato does not work.

  从数学的功能上说，最终这些美元将必须回到美国。同时，将美元像个烫手山芋一样推出去是做不到的。

• with the development of the tiger breeding industry, the growing number of tiger bodies from natural death becomes a hot potato for the industry.

  这使得随着养虎业的开展而正常死亡的西南虎，成了养虎企业的烫手山芋。

• one such hot potato is taxes.

  其中一个这样烤土豆就是税。

• the hot potato flew farther: ifad’s board acknowledged its 「shared responsibility」; but it also blamed poor guidance from a committee that deals with pay and allowances.

  责任越传越广：ifad的理事会了解到他们的「应分担的责任」，但他们也在怪罪一个负责支付和津贴的委员会，说他们引导不力。

• last winter’s reform of ruinous price subsidies was a hot potato that only he dared to touch.

  去年冬天对离谱的价格补助进行的改革是个烫手山芋，只有他才敢触碰。

• ceding sovereignty to europe is a political hot potato in britain.

  对英国政坛来说，放弃欧盟主权可谓是一块烫手的热山芋。