tinderbox
火药箱,火药盒,火药桶,火药筒
Definitions
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- : a box for holding tinder, usually fitted with a flint and steel.
- : a person or thing that is highly excitable, explosive, inflammable, etc.; a potential source of widespread violence: Berlin was the tinderbox of Europe.
Examples
What you need to know about how wildfires spreadThe combination of heat and drought have created tinderbox conditions away from the coast.
I fumbled through my backpack, looking for the tinderbox to light a fire.
Meanwhile, the hot, dry air has created tinderbox conditions, and blazes have erupted in several states.
Food-processing plants are tinderboxes for infection because employees work in close proximity and often need to shout, spraying droplets that can be laced with the virus.
The Mideast Tinderbox Beyond Libya, there is the rest of the region.
Some believe the answer is even more support for dictators who keep the lid on this tinderbox.
They said that in any case the incident only highlights their worry that the Gulf is an aquatic tinderbox.
Take the flint and tinderbox, creep along the bank, and light a fire at that spot; maybe the smoke will draw them above us.
Klein Piet had his tinderbox in his pocket; by the light he made, they both bent to look at the link on the ground.
She says he finds his way up to his room, in the dark, and the candle and a tinderbox are always placed handy for him there.
That he had done so affected him more sharply now with a sense of the appropriateness of this house in Tinderbox Lane.
It was satisfactory, Michael thought as he walked down Tinderbox Lane, that the conversation had ended normally.