tinderbox
英 ['tɪndəbɒks]
美['tɪndɚbɑks]
- 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
英英释义
- 1. a dangerous state of affairs; a situation that is a potential source of violence;
- "the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe"
- 2. a box for holding tinder
实用场景例句
- You have got your money. Now, give me the tinderbox.
- “你已经得到你所要的钱了. 现在, 把我的火绒箱给我. ”
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- But the old witch would not tell him how to use the tinderbox.
- 但是老巫婆仍然不肯告诉他该如何使用火绒箱.
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- He took the money and the tinderbox and went to a town.
- 士兵带着钱以及火绒箱走到一座城镇.
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- Referred to the crowded prison as a tinderbox of suppressed violence.
- 把拥挤的监狱称作一个''.'装满'.''了被压制的暴力的火药''.'筒'. ''.
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- Dublin city is currently like a tinderbox just waiting to explode.
- 都柏林市现在就像一个马上要爆炸的火药桶.
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- And its neocolonial methods of governance in the north Caucasus have created a tinderbox.
- 而在北高加索其新殖民主义的管制方式又点燃了一个火药桶.
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- Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
- 于是他拿出火绒箱,并敲击打火石.
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- What do you want to do with this tinderbox? said the soldier.
- “你打算怎么处理这个火绒箱 呢 ?”士兵问.
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- He took out the tinderbox and the candle.
- 于是他拿出火绒箱和蜡烛.
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- This political tinderbox threatened to split the New Republic, but cooler heads prevailed.
- 这个政治性火药桶一度使新共和国遭受分裂的威胁, 但最终冷静的政治家控制了事态.
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双语例句
- 1. You have got your money. Now, give me the tinderbox.
- “你已经得到你所要的钱了. 现在, 把我的火绒箱给我. ”
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- 2. He took the money and the tinderbox and went to a town.
- 士兵带着钱以及火绒箱走到一座城镇.
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- 3. Referred to the crowded prison as a tinderbox of suppressed violence.
- 把拥挤的监狱称作一个''.'装满'.''了被压制的暴力的火药''.'筒'. ''.
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- 4. Dublin city is currently like a tinderbox just waiting to explode.
- 都柏林市现在就像一个马上要爆炸的火药桶.
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- 5. Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
- 于是他拿出火绒箱,并敲击打火石.
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英文词源
- tinderbox (n.)
- also tinder-box, "box in which tinder and flint are kept," 1520s, from tinder + box (n.); figurative sense of " 'inflammable' person or thing" is attested from 1590s.
词态变化
复数: tinderboxes;