the tinderbox

英汉例句

雙語例句

• Then he took out his tinderbox and struck the flint.
  於是他拿出火羢箱，竝敲擊打火石。
• The mystics said that Lester had started the blaze himself with a bad dream, Lester’s nightmare a spark, the house a tinderbox.
  神秘主義者說，是萊斯特自己用惡夢點燃了火，他的惡夢是火星，他家屋子則是燃料箱。
• "Have you got my tinderbox?" asked the old witch.
  “拿到我的火羢箱了嗎？”老巫婆問。
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權威例句

• 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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