tinder
英 ['tɪndə]
美['tɪndɚ]
- n. 火绒；易燃物
英英释义
- 1. material for starting a fire
实用场景例句
- The fire started late Saturday in tinder-dry grass near the Snake River.
- 大火是星期六晚些时候在斯内克河附近干枯的草地上燃起的。
《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》
- Be careful what you say to Mr Smith, for he is like tinder.
- 你跟史密斯先生说话要小心, 因为他好发脾气.
《简明英汉词典》
- The plants are as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期干旱之后干枯得如同火绒一般.
辞典例句
- The plants as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期干旱之后干枯得如同火“绒”一般.
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- The plant is as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期乾旱之后干枯得如同火绒一般.
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- Cotton socks can also provide you with a source of fire - starting tinder.
- 棉布袜还可以提供点火用的火绒.
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- The plants are as dry as tinder.
- 草木十分干燥,极易着火.
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- It has been implemented tinder MS - DOS, and used in a boiler - parts parameter CAD system.
- 它已在微机上用TURBOC语言实现, 并在锅炉部件参数化设计CAD系统中取得了实际应用.
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- Sulphur matches were used to transfer the fire from the tinder to light a spill.
- 火柴与可燃物摩擦起火,点燃纸捻.
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- In both instances, a heatwave following years of drought provided tinder for an arsonist's match.
- 在这两个例子中, 与经年的干旱结伴而来的热浪为纵火犯间的竞赛提供了火种.
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- Note: tinder can be repeated the use of wood can only be used once.
- 注: 火绒可以多次使用,木柴只能用一次.
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中文词源
tinder 引火物，点火物
来自古英语 tynder,引火物，来自 Proto-Germanic*tund,点燃。
助记提示
1. 该词可能与 kindle 同源。
2. candle => cand- / cend- / kind- (kindle) => tind- "ignite, kindle" + -er.
3. 谐音“烃的、烃的儿”------学过化学的都知道，易燃物不是基本上都是烃吗？烃都是易燃物嘛。
4. kindle, cinder => tinder.
2. candle => cand- / cend- / kind- (kindle) => tind- "ignite, kindle" + -er.
3. 谐音“烃的、烃的儿”------学过化学的都知道，易燃物不是基本上都是烃吗？烃都是易燃物嘛。
4. kindle, cinder => tinder.
双语例句
- 1. The fire started late Saturday in tinder-dry grass near the Snake River.
- 大火是星期六晚些时候在斯内克河附近干枯的草地上燃起的。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. Be careful what you say to Mr Smith, for he is like tinder.
- 你跟史密斯先生说话要小心, 因为他好发脾气.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The plants are as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期干旱之后干枯得如同火绒一般.
来自辞典例句
- 4. The plants as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期干旱之后干枯得如同火“绒”一般.
来自互联网
- 5. The plant is as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期乾旱之后干枯得如同火绒一般.
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英文词源
- tinder
- tinder: [OE] Tinder, and its relatives German zunder, Dutch tonder, and Swedish tunder, go back to a prehistoric Germanic base *tund- ‘ignite, kindle’, which also produced German anzünden, Swedish upptända, and Danish antænde ‘kindle’. Its ultimate origins are not known. The now clichéd tinder-dry is first recorded in Rudyard Kipling’s Light That Failed 1891: ‘the tinder-dry clumps of scrub’.
- tinder (n.)
- "dry, inflammable substance," Old English tynder, from or related to tendan "to kindle," from Proto-Germanic *tund- "ignite, kindle" (cognates: Gothic tandjan, Swedish tända, German zünden "to kindle").