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今天我们要学的词是 touch off. To touch off 意思是引发，触发。A new report written by civil servants in Britain’s government warned that leaving the European Union could touch off a decade of uncertainty¹. 英国政府公务员撰写的一份报告警告说，离开欧盟可能会给英国带来整整十年的不确定性。Students displaying anti-gay stickers at a California high school touched off a debate: is it hate speech or free speech? 美国加州一所高中的学生佩戴反同性恋的标志而引发争论：这种做法体现的到底是仇恨言论，还是展现了言论自由呢？好的，我们今天学习的词是 touch off, touch off, touch off...

1 uncertainty   

n.易变，靠不住，不确知，不确定的事物

参考例句：

• Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
• After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后，压力开始产生影响了。