If both sides agreed to take their weapons off this hair-trigger, their leaders could make decisions with cooler heads.

如果双方都同意解除这种一触即发的武器，他们的领导人就能以更冷静的头脑做出决定。

The person who's extremely reasonable or the person who has a hair-trigger temper?

是极其通情达理的人，还是脾气一触即发的人？

What we did, we spent over 10 trillion dollars to build 70,000 nuclear warheads and put them on hair-trigger alert.

我们所做的是，我们花费了超过 10 万亿美元来制造 70, 000 枚核弹头， 并将它们置于一触即发的状态。

Which - what? - kind of made it a little less likely there would be a hair-trigger response and a sudden nuclear war by mistake. Is that right?

这降低了一触即发的回应和由于错误而引发核战的可能性。没错吧？

Ashley, leaning against the old secretary, knew that the responsibility for preventing trouble lay with him and, knowing the hair-trigger tempers of the County, was at a loss as to how to proceed.

艾希礼在这位老秘书的帮助下可以主持仪式，但他明白自己肩负着防止出麻烦的重任，同时也了解老乡们的火爆脾气，不知怎样主持才好。

He never talked about it, so all I have to go on are hints from my mother, who told me that, in his younger years, Grandpa-down-the-hill had been violent, with a hair-trigger temper.

他从未说起过，所以我对他的了解全部来自我母亲。她告诉我，在我父亲小时候，山下爷爷曾经脾气火爆，一点就着。