单词nuclear-option
n.: 核选择（指可能做出的最极端反应）
网络: 核子选项；玉石俱焚选项；核子手段
核选择（指可能做出的最极端反应）:
the most extreme possible response to a particular situation
Mr Ozawa has one more means of destruction: the nuclear option of leading his true supporters out of the party.
小泽还有另外一个击垮菅直人的办法：率领其坚定支持者离开民主党，这不啻对菅直人的核打击。
The U. S. , in other words, is not likely to face the "nuclear option" of a Chinese disruption of the U. S. Treasury bond market.
换句话说，美国不太可能面临中国扰乱美国国债市场的“核选项”。
Gas prices, which a few years ago were high enough to make power firms consider the nuclear option, are now much lower.
几年前，由于天然气价格很高，所以很多能源公司将核能源作为一种选择。但现在瓦斯价格降低了很多。
Stopping disbursements under the lending programme already agreed would be a nuclear option.
停止按照已经达成的贷款计划供应资金将是一种过于极端的做法。
I guess in the Dead Sea, that"s more of the nuclear option in case of leak or "wardrobe malfunction" .
我猜，在死海中，万一面具漏水或者“走光”，那将是更加激进的做法。
ECB officials had hoped Mr. Trichet"s public rejection of the nuclear option would spur governments to do just that.
欧洲央行官员原本指望，让特里谢公开表示拒绝做出这个“核选择”，借此刺激各国政府采取措施。
Government-imposed pricing is the nuclear option of counter-inflation measures.
政府限价是对抗通胀的核心举措。
"For another country to organise the sherpa calls is just unprecedented. It"s a nuclear option, " said one senior G8 member state official.
一名G8组织的高级官员抱怨道，意大利人真是一团糟，毫无计划和组织性，让另一个国家来组织夏尔巴电话是从未有过的。
Raising margins, or the downpayments on trades, has long been ruled out by Wall Street as the nuclear option.
提高保证金或者交易的首付款，长期以来一直被华尔街视为“原子武器”而抵制。
Sadly, of course, this may only make a nuclear option look sweeter to Iran"s rulers.
当然还会有失望，这将促使伊朗的统治者更想选择核武器。