tinderbox
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈtɪn.də.bɒks]
- 美式音标 [ˈtɪn.dɚ.bɑːks]
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- 美式发音
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
英汉例句
- 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。 - 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
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词组短语
- 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
短語
英英字典
- a dangerous and uncontrolled situation in which violence is likely to happen
- 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.