眼下这个人倒是成了烫手山芋
“Right now, this man has become a hot potato.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“Your operators were certainly thorough.”
眼下 这个人 倒是 成了 烫手山芋
“Right now, this man has become a hot potato.”
真要了他的命
“If I really kill him,”
“Your scheme didn't fix things; now we are stuck with a dangerous captive we can neither hold nor kill.”
The imagery of '烫手山芋' (a roasted sweet potato too hot to hold) vividly captures situations where possessing something desirable brings immediate harm or political vulnerability.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
at present; right now
Useful temporal adverb focusing attention on the immediate, current crisis.
hot potato; dangerous burden
Metaphor for a troublesome person, task, or possession that everyone wants to get rid of.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Now it's become a hot potato.”
“you're indeed like a hot potato.”
“Looking at his movements today,”
“you took over such a hot potato like Purong Hotel.”
“I bet the one who tried to kill me”
“My behavior today was actually very abrupt.”