[ 复数 tinderboxes ]
"the Balkans are the tinderbox of Europe"
以上来源于: WordNet
N-COUNT If you say that a situation is a tinderbox, you mean that it is very tense and something dangerous or bad is likely to happen very soon. (危机四伏的)紧张局势 [usu sing]
"Have you got the tinder-box?" asked the witch.
“你取到打火匣没有？”巫婆问。
The matches now lay between a tinder-box and an old iron saucepan, and were talking about their youthful days.
这捆柴火现在躺在打火匣和老铁罐中间的一个架子上。 它们谈起自己年轻时代的那些日子来。
Only promise to bring me an old tinder-box, which my grandmother left behind the last time she went down there.
我只要你替我把那个旧打火匣取出来。那是我祖母上次忘掉在那里面的。
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