English Dictionary

time bomb

名詞

比喩的用法

A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time. / (computing) A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time.

日本語の意味

予め設定された時刻に起爆するように仕組まれた爆弾 / （計算機用語）特定の日付や時刻に破壊的な動作を実行するように設計された悪意あるプログラム

The detective discovered the abandoned suitcase was a time bomb set to detonate at midnight.

刑事は放置されたスーツケースが真夜中に爆発するように仕掛けられた時限爆弾であることを発見した。

意味（1）

A bomb that has a mechanism such that detonation can be preset to a particular time.

意味（2）

(computing) A malicious program designed to perform a destructive action at a certain date and/or time.

Donald Gene Burleson was prosecuted on felony charges for planting a time bomb that, shortly after he was fired, deleted more than 168,000 brokerage records of USPA & IRA in Fort Worth, Texas.

意味（3）

(figuratively) A situation that threatens to have disastrous consequences at some future time.

Even so, they managed to morph the recent European parliamentary elections into a time bomb and plant it under their country’s own future.

time bombs （ plural ）