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tinderbox的意思
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.
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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