"hot potato" بـChinese (Traditional)

• 燙手山芋
• 棘手問題

التعريف

“Hot potato” 意指一個棘手或具爭議性的問題，人們因高風險或尷尬而避開處理。

ملاحظات الاستخدام (Chinese (Traditional))

多用於口語或非正式情境，講述如政治、職場等敏感議題。常見用法有“pass the hot potato”。完全是比喻，非實際食物。

أمثلة

The new tax law is a hot potato for the government.

新稅法成了政府的**hot potato**。

No one wants to talk about the hot potato in the office.

辦公室裡沒人想討論這個**hot potato**。

That question was a real hot potato during the meeting.

那個問題在會議上成了真正的**hot potato**。

As soon as the scandal broke, it turned into a hot potato nobody wanted to touch.

醜聞爆發後，這就變成了沒人願意碰的**hot potato**。

He handed the hot potato over to his colleague and walked away.

他把這**hot potato**交給了同事然後走開了。

"Climate change is a hot potato topic in many countries," she said.

「氣候變遷在很多國家都是個**hot potato**話題」，她說。