当心—盘子烫手。

Be careful—the plates are hot.

别碰那个盘子，烫手！

Don't touch that plate—it's hot!

他抛开这个问题，就像丢掉一块烫手的山芋一样。

He dropped the topic like a hot potato.

但是，现在的美元是烫手的山芋，食之无味，弃之可惜。

However, the dollar is a hot potato, tasteless but wasteful to discard.

但她同时也接过了经济过热这块烫手山药，通货膨胀持续升温，实业家们怨声连连。

But she has also inherited an overheating economy, with inflation revving up and industrialists screaming about the strength of the real.