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。
• With forests dry as tinder, thousands of hectares of trees have fallen prey to fire in Portugal and Spain.
  由于森林干燥易燃，葡萄牙和西班牙有数千公顷林木遭受火灾肆虐。
• How did your son dislodge the tinder?
  你儿子怎么砸碎壁炉柴？
• Tinder has seen a 400% day-over-day increase of new users in Sochi since the Olympics opened Friday, Sean Rad says, with numbers now in the thousands.
  交友应用Tinder的西恩•拉德（SeanRad）表示，自上周五冬奥会开幕以来，Tinder在索契的新用户数量每日增加400%，现在已达数千人。
• The strongman will be as tinder and all his work a spark: both will burn together and no one will quench the fire.
  强者将似麻絮，他的工作犹如火花：二者必要同时焚烧，无人予以熄灭。
• 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。
• 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导火索。
• 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。
• TINDER is a lost foam ( EPC) high-tech enterprise, mainly design and make production line of different capacity, provide lost foam technology service, make equipment and casting and trade.
  天哲公司是集消失模铸造工程设计、装备制造、技术服务、铸件生产与国际贸易为一体的高新技术企业，是中国最大的消失模铸造技术和装备供应商。
• She is also revealing how in love she is with Phelps, and claims the two clicked after meeting on Tinder.
  她还表示自己与菲尔普斯正在热恋中，声称两人是在陌陌上摇到对方后萌生了爱意。