tinderbox
英 ['t?nd?b?ks]
美['t?nd?bɑks]
- n. 易燃物；火絨箱；容易生氣的人；潛伏著暴亂或戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)危險(xiǎn)的人
詞態(tài)變化
復(fù)數(shù):?tinderboxes;
英文詞源
- 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.
雙語例句
- 1. You have got your money. Now, give me the tinderbox.
- “你已經(jīng)得到你所要的錢了. 現(xiàn)在, 把我的火絨箱給我. ”
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- 2. He took the money and the tinderbox and went to a town.
- 士兵帶著錢以及火絨箱走到一座城鎮(zhèn).
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- 3. Referred to the crowded prison as a tinderbox of suppressed violence.
- 把擁擠的監(jiān)獄稱作一個(gè)''.'裝滿'.''了被壓制的暴力的火藥''.'筒'. ''.
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- 4. Dublin city is currently like a tinderbox just waiting to explode.
- 都柏林市現(xiàn)在就像一個(gè)馬上要爆炸的火藥桶.
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- 5. Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
- 于是他拿出火絨箱,并敲擊打火石.
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