tinderbox

单词tinderbox

基本解释

n.: 引火盒；一触即发的形势
网络: 易燃物；火绒盒；火绒箱

权威解释

• （旧时点火用的）火绒盒，引火盒:

  a box containing dry material, used in the past for lighting a fire

• 一触即发的形势:

  a situation that is likely to become dangerous

英汉解释

• 脾气暴躁的人

• 易燃的物品(建筑,场所)

• 导火线盒

• 火药库

• 炸药库

• 火绒箱

词性分析

• 复数：tinderboxes

同义词

n.flashpointcruciblevolcanono-go areatime bomb

例句

• 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

• It may be a long way from the Rift Valley, a tribal tinderbox where jobs are scarce and land even scarcer, to the tidy streets of The Hague.

  也许从东非大裂谷，一个部落的火药桶，在那里工作是稀少的，而土地更为荒凉，到海牙熙熙攘攘的大街有很长的路程。

• "Those pressure points are becoming more of a tinderbox because there is no relief, " said Paul Miller of FBR Capital Markets.

  券商FBRCapitalMarkets的保罗-米勒（PaulMiller）说，上述问题正变得越来越像是一个火药桶，因为压力得不到缓解。

• That means, in particular, making China see that a tinderbox it has long regarded as a strategic asset has become an appalling liability.

  这意味着，尤其得让中国明白，其长期以来视为战略资产的这个危险之地，已变成了可怕的阻碍。

• Jos is a tinderbox that sits in Nigeria"s "middle belt" , between the country"s predominantly Muslim north and largely Christian south.

  乔斯地处尼日利亚的“中间地带”，冲突一触即发。北部主要为穆斯林，南面主要为基督徒。

• The euro is poised to finish the year much where it began: whipsawed by Europe"s debt tinderbox while holding to potentially flimsy support.

  预计在今年结束时，欧元仍跟年初的时候差不多：在欧债危机影响下上下起伏，同时获得一个可能很脆弱的支持。

• Left out of work or underemployed in the informal sector and subsistence farming, they are a political tinderbox.

  除去失业者和非正式工作的未充分就业者，再除去务农的，青壮年是政治火药桶。

• And its neocolonial methods of governance in the north Caucasus have created a tinderbox.

  而在北高加索其新殖民主义的管制方式又点燃了一个火药桶。

• This shrub is a typical example of a tinderbox perennially in search of a flint.

  寻找打火石时，这种灌木永远都是易燃物的典型。

• The cattle he ran kept the valley grazed , but today the grass stands thigh-high, creating a tinderbox.

  他曾在山谷里放牧，但今天的草地上却是高耸的基地站，还制造了一个“火药箱”。