tinder

英 [ˈtɪndə(r)]

美 [ˈtɪndər]

n.  引火物; 火绒; 火种

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BNC.27437 / COCA.26176

牛津词典

noun

• 引火物；火绒；火种
  dry material, especially wood or grass, that burns easily and can be used to light a fire
  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。

柯林斯词典

• 火绒;引火物;火媒
  Tinderconsists of small pieces of something dry, especially wood or grass, that burns easily and can be used for lighting a fire.

英英释义

noun

• material for starting a fire
  Synonym:kindlingtouchwoodspunkpunk

双语例句

• Lacking adequate provision of fresh water, electricity, sanitation or health care, they suffer privations that all too often provide the tinder for the fires of social unrest.
  他们无法获得足够的淡水、电力、卫生和保健，他们所受的困苦常常成为社会动乱的火种。
• TINDER can provide alloy casting, gray iron casting, ductile iron casting, and, steel casting etc.
  天哲公司提供各种牌号灰铁、球铁、合金铸铁、铸钢和合金钢等铸件。
• In sunbaked southern Italy, fires raged as parched forests and fields turned to tinder.
  太阳炙烤下的意大利南部，大火蔓延，被晒干了的树林和田地都成了天然的燃料。
• The day after the impromptu meeting, Mr. Bhat had dinner with the three founders of Tinder, the popular dating app.
  就在这场临时会面的次日，哈特先生与当红约会应用Tinder的三位创始人共进了晚餐。
• She told Us Weekly afterward that Tinder was such a distraction that she had to delete it from her phone.
  她在夺金后对《美国周刊》（USWeekly）表示，Tinder太让人分心，她不得不从手机上删除了这个应用。
• And many people including Winston Churchill were sure that it would only be a matter of time before some spark lit the unstable tinder.
  许多人，包括丘吉尔在内，都认为某个火化将点燃这个导火索。这是个时间问题。
• But she saw problems with Tinder.
  不过，她也看到了Tinder的问题所在。
• As in the run-up to other wars, there is today more than enough tinder lying around to spark a great power conflict.
  象其它战争的酝酿阶段一样，如今到处都是足以引起强权冲突的导火索。
• Action alone, is the tinder which ignites the map the parchment, my dreams, my plans, my goals, into a living force.
  马上行动，它是点燃蓝图和律法的导火索，我一切的梦想、计划、目标将会重现生机。
• 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。