tinderbox

常見例句

雙語例句

• This shrub is a typical example of a tinderbox perennially in search of a flint.
  尋找打火石時(shí)，這種灌木永遠(yuǎn)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.
  神秘主義者說，是萊斯特自己用惡夢(mèng)點(diǎn)燃了火，他的惡夢(mèng)是火星，他家屋子則是燃料箱。
• Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
  於是他拿出火羢箱，竝敲擊打火石。

權(quán)威例句

• History implies that high unemployment is not just an economic problem but also a political tinderbox.
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• Because official policy thwarted this natural process of renewal for many decades, Yellowstone became a tinderbox.
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• When another spark lit the tinderbox this month, it was all over—though not before another hundred had died.
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