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Window of opportunity 稍纵即逝的好机会

Reader question:

Please explain this sentence, with "window of opportunity" in particular: If Israel is planning to annex the Jordan Valley, the window of opportunity is only from now until the American election in November.

My comments:

In other words, if Israel wants to annex the Jordan Valley, it must act now, moving fast and finishing the task before November, or before the next US election.

Presumably this is because Israel has the support of Donald Trump, currently President of the United States. Trump may lose the November election and leave the Oval Office. The next president, Joe Biden that is to be, unless something extraordinarily unexpected happens, almost certainly opposes the Israeli aggression.

Window of opportunity, as you may guess, is a small opportunity, an opportunity that lasts only a short period of time. In our example, it means for Israel, the opportunity to annex the Jordan Valley may very well cease to exist after November.

I say a window of opportunity is a small opportunity because window, by definition, is a smaller opening on the wall of a room, smaller at any rate in comparison with the door to the room, which is the main entrance and opening.

However small it is, the window is nonetheless an escape.

If you follow English football, you'll know the English Premier League has something called a transfer window, which allows clubs to exchange players with one other in the middle of the playing season.