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 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。
• 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 strongman will be as tinder and all his work a spark: both will burn together and no one will quench the fire.
  强者将似麻絮，他的工作犹如火花：二者必要同时焚烧，无人予以熄灭。
• 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。
• This is a key fire prevention area, no smoking and tinder.
  本公司是重点防火单位，厂内严禁吸烟、严禁携带火种。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• For other developers of dating apps, such as Tinder, making money in China can be more of a challenge than elsewhere.
  对于Tinder等其他约会应用的开发商来说，在中国赚钱比在其他地方挑战更大。
• 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。