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tinderbox

T 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈtɪn.də.bɒks]
  • 美式音标 [ˈtɪn.dɚ.bɑːks]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • n. 易燃物；火绒箱；容易生气的人；潜伏着暴乱或战争危险的人

同根派生

     

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • This shrub is a typical example of a tinderbox perennially in search of a flint.
    寻找打火石时，这种灌木永远都是易燃物的典型。
  • The mystics said that Lester had started the blaze himself with a bad dream, Lester’s nightmare a spark, the house a tinderbox.
    神秘主义者说，是莱斯特自己用恶梦点燃了火，他的恶梦是火星，他家屋子则是燃料箱。
  • Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
    于是他拿出火绒箱，并敲击打火石。

    • 权威例句

  • History implies that high unemployment is not just an economic problem but also a political tinderbox.
    ECONOMIST: Unemployment
  • Because official policy thwarted this natural process of renewal for many decades, Yellowstone became a tinderbox.
    FORBES: The Wages Of Bernanke: Winners And Losers From QE3
  • When another spark lit the tinderbox this month, it was all over—though not before another hundred had died.
    ECONOMIST: From now on, the Palestinians are not themselves

词组短语

    短语

  • tinderbox detail 导火线盒
  • The Tinderbox 打火匣
  • tinder tinderbox 易燃物
  • Tinderbox Mac 个人数据管理工具
  • Tinderbox for nuke 外文名称

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • a dangerous and uncontrolled situation in which violence is likely to happen

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you say that a situation is a tinderbox, you mean that it is very tense and something dangerous or bad is likely to happen very soon.