The Japan Times Online, April 10, 2024の記事タイトル・サブタイトルを引用します。
How to stop the dominoes of war from falling in East Asia
Conflicts elsewhere have implications for East Asia's powder kegs — the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula.
"keg" からはビールなど液体の入った樽を連想しますが、"powder" は液体ではないし？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a dangerous situation that may suddenly become very violent: We're sitting on a powder keg of tension in the city.
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe a situation or a place as a powder keg, you mean that it could easily become very dangerous.: Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
・Vocabulary.com: keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder; a potentially explosive state
"powder" はここでは元々 "gunpowder or blasting powder" を意味していたのですね。
How to stop the dominoes of war from falling in East Asia
Conflicts elsewhere have implications for East Asia's powder kegs — the Taiwan Strait and the Korean Peninsula.
"keg" からはビールなど液体の入った樽を連想しますが、"powder" は液体ではないし？ 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: a dangerous situation that may suddenly become very violent: We're sitting on a powder keg of tension in the city.
・Collins Dictionary: If you describe a situation or a place as a powder keg, you mean that it could easily become very dangerous.: Unless these questions are solved, the region will remain a powder keg.
・Vocabulary.com: keg (usually made of metal) for gunpowder or blasting powder; a potentially explosive state
"powder" はここでは元々 "gunpowder or blasting powder" を意味していたのですね。
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