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

• In Europe, the combination of steel, flint and tinder remained the main method of fire-lighting until the mid 19th century.
  在欧洲，保持钢、打火石和火绒的化合物作为点火的主要方法一直持续到19世纪中期。
• Be careful what you say to Mr Smith, for he is like tinder.
  你跟史密斯先生说话要小心，因为他好发脾气。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 average user spends 77 minutes a day with Tinder, said Rad.
  拉德说，用户平均每天在Tinder上花费的时间为77分钟。
• 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。
• The plants are as dry as tinder.
  草木十分干燥，极易着火。
• 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。
• 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。