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

• The study on "image times" in China has developed flaring like fire set to dry tinder since the nineties of last century.
  自上个世纪90年代，中国对图像时代的相关研究也如火如荼地展开了。
• Today's art directors delve into this tinder, igniting hidden worlds through the subtle use of styling and photographic imagery.
  今天的艺术从业者试图发现这个隐藏的通过巧妙运用造型和摄影图像点燃世界的***。
• This is a key fire prevention area, no smoking and tinder.
  本公司是重点防火单位，厂内严禁吸烟、严禁携带火种。
• Consider whether there is dry tinder in the area, and whether you need to take equipment to get this, such as a knife, or axe.
  考虑一下这个地方有没有干燥的引火物，你是否需要带上工具来采集一些，比如刀子或斧头。
• 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。
• But she saw problems with Tinder.
  不过，她也看到了Tinder的问题所在。
• 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。
• 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***。这是个时间问题。
• He spunked up like tinder. "do you call me a liar?" he said.
  他像火绒似的怒火中烧起来。“你说我撒谎？”他问道。