That's like throwing gasoline on a pretentious fire.

那不是火上浇油嘛。

Just a sec. -Mum? -Don't worry. I'm not packing heat.

就一会。-？-别担心，我不会火上浇油的。

Do not poke the bear, all right? Man, I beg you.

别再火上浇油，行吗？伙计，我求你。

For that matter, high-strung and finely sensitive, the ill treatment had flung him into a fever, which was fed by the inflammation of his parched and swollen throat and tongue.

饥肠辘辘他倒不在乎，但没有水喝却使他痛苦不堪，也把他的满腔怒火煽得更旺。为此，他变得敏感易怒。虐待已经点燃他的怒火，肿胀发干的喉咙和舌头又火烧火燎，恰似火上浇油。

The railroads completion threw gasoline on the fire of America's westward expansion.

铁路完工给美国向西扩张火上浇油。

It's summer there now and the country typically sees a fire season but this one was made worse by an ongoing drought.

当地现在值夏季，通常都会有火灾，但即将到来的旱季对这次的火灾而言无异于火上浇油。

Yes, we have 'add fuel to the fire'.

有的，我们有“火上浇油”。

Anyway, the point is, you don't can't go throwing gasoline on the fire.

总之，重点是你不能火上浇油。

Perfect. We'll just add it to the growing list of how everything's falling apart.

太，火上浇油。

Can you not make this fear worse?

你能别火上浇油吗？

This is adding to an already fiercely contested election.

这让本已竞争激烈的选举犹如火上浇油。

Instead you add fuel to the fire.

相反，你会火上浇油。

Anything else is throwing fuel on the fire.

别的一切都是火上浇油。

She doesn't need to be a front-page story.

把她放在头版不是火上浇油吗。

The media seems to add fuel to the flame as well.

媒体似乎也在火上浇油。

Don’t say anything, you’ll only make matters worse.

【worse】什么也别说，说只会火上浇油。

Logan says the international popularity of the show was turbo-charged during the pandemic. " It was like gasoline on a fire. When people were at home, they had no excuse not to watch a show with 900-plus episodes."

洛根说，这部漫画在国际上的受欢迎程度在疫情期间被加速。“这就像火上浇油。当人们在家时，他们没有借口不看一部有900多集的漫画。”

To that last question, CNN recently spoke to a professor of Fire Sciences at the Imperial College of London to explain how climate change might be adding fuel to these wildfires.

对于最后一个问题，CNN最近采访伦敦帝国理工院的一位火灾科教授，他解释气候变化是如何给这些野火火上浇油的。

But really it's adding on to the background global warming signal-for example, 2016 was half a degree Celsius warmer than 1998 (at the time, 1998 was far and away the hottest year).

实际上，厄尔尼诺是火上浇油，加剧全球变暖——2016年的气温还要比1998年高0.5摄氏度(1998年在当时无疑是最热的一年)。

Tuesday, May 28: His ire stoked by hearing from Markkula that Jobs had spent the previous evening trying to subvert him, Sculley walked over to Jobs's office on Tuesday morning.

5 月 28 日，周二：马库拉告诉斯卡利，乔布斯前一天晚上试图推翻他。这无异于火上浇油，斯卡利怒火中烧。这天上午，他走进乔布斯的办公室与他对质。