the tinderbox

常见例句

双语例句

• Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
  于是他拿出火绒箱，并敲击打火石。
• The mystics said that Lester had started the blaze himself with a bad dream, Lester’s nightmare a spark, the house a tinderbox.
  神秘主义者说，是莱斯特自己用恶梦点燃了火，他的恶梦是火星，他家屋子则是燃料箱。
• "Have you got my tinderbox?" asked the old witch.
  “拿到我的火绒箱了吗？”老巫婆问。
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权威例句

• When another spark lit the tinderbox this month, it was all over—though not before another hundred had died.
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• This is the tinderbox that Osama bin Laden ignited.
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• Another factor that makes the garment sector a tinderbox is its location or rather, the lack of an industrial zone for garment manufacture.
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