tinderbox

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.