tinderbox

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• 英式音标 [ˈtɪn.də.bɒks]
• 美式音标 [ˈtɪn.dɚ.bɑːks]
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基本解释

• n. 易燃物；火羢箱；容易生氣的人；潛伏著暴亂或戰爭危險的人

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• This shrub is a typical example of a tinderbox perennially in search of a flint.
  尋找打火石時，這種灌木永遠都是易燃物的典型。
• The mystics said that Lester had started the blaze himself with a bad dream, Lester’s nightmare a spark, the house a tinderbox.
  神秘主義者說，是萊斯特自己用惡夢點燃了火，他的惡夢是火星，他家屋子則是燃料箱。
• Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
  於是他拿出火羢箱，竝敲擊打火石。

權威例句

• 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.
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• 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

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词组短语

短語

• tinderbox detail 導火線盒
• The Tinderbox 打火匣
• tinder tinderbox 易燃物
• Tinderbox Mac 個人數據琯理工具
• Tinderbox for nuke 外文名稱

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• 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.

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