tinderbox

Word family adjectivetinderynountindertinderbox

Related topics: Daily life

tin·der·box /ˈtɪndəbɒks $ -dərbɑːks/ noun

1 [countableC usually singular]PROBLEM a place or situation that is dangerous and where there could suddenly be a lot of fighting or problems 危机四伏的地区[形势]

The area is a tinderbox that could again plunge the country into civil war.

这地区是个火药桶，很可能再次使国家陷入内战。

2. [countableC]DBURN a box containing things needed to make a flame, used in the past 〔旧时取火用的〕火绒盒

Examples from the Corpus

tinderbox• The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire.• Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.• They can go for years without rain there, and when that happens, the whole state turns into a tinderbox.• At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox.• The Balkans have a long and tragically deserved reputation as a political tinderbox.

词汇	tinderbox
释义	tinderbox Word family adjectivetinderynountindertinderbox Related topics: Daily life tin·der·box /ˈtɪndəbɒks $ -dərbɑːks/ noun 1 [countableC usually singular]PROBLEM a place or situation that is dangerous and where there could suddenly be a lot of fighting or problems 危机四伏的地区[形势] The area is a tinderbox that could again plunge the country into civil war. 这地区是个火药桶，很可能再次使国家陷入内战。 2. [countableC]DBURN a box containing things needed to make a flame, used in the past 〔旧时取火用的〕火绒盒 Examples from the Corpus tinderbox• The refugee camps are a tinderbox waiting to catch fire.• Others plan to leave the Southwest for northern states untouched by the drought that has left Arizona a tinderbox.• They can go for years without rain there, and when that happens, the whole state turns into a tinderbox.• At the top of the cellar steps Broadman knelt down and fumbled in his tinderbox.• The Balkans have a long and tragically deserved reputation as a political tinderbox.
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