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

• However, the case study show, that tinder barrier-free condition the perforated degree is used to being lower and resulting in lower flow rate of well.
  通过实例计算，在无隔板的情况下，油井的打开程度都较小，产量也较小。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The plant is as dry as tinder after this long drought.
  植物经过长期乾旱之后乾枯得如同火绒一般。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• How did your son dislodge the tinder?
  你儿子怎么砸碎壁炉柴？
• 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。