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

• 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。
• 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。
• He spunked up like tinder. "do you call me a liar?" he said.
  他像火绒似的怒火中烧起来。“你说我撒谎？”他问道。
• "It is conceivable that accomodative monetary policy could provide tinder for a buildup of leverage and excessive risk-taking," Yellen said in remarks to economists meeting in Denver.
  “它是可想到的，维持灵活的货币政策能是一种增强杠杆作用和过度的风险拿的导火线，”耶伦在丹佛经济学家会议中说。
• 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。
• The plants are as dry as tinder.
  草木十分干燥，极易着火。
• 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。
• 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。
• The day after the impromptu meeting, Mr. Bhat had dinner with the three founders of Tinder, the popular dating app.
  就在这场临时会面的次日，哈特先生与当红约会应用Tinder的三位创始人共进了晚餐。
• 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。