tinder
英 ['tɪndə]
美 ['tɪndɚ]
TEM8 GRE
1. 该词可能与 kindle 同源。
2. candle => cand- / cend- / kind- (kindle) => tind- "ignite, kindle" + -er.
3. 谐音“烃的、烃的儿”------学过化学的都知道，易燃物不是基本上都是烃吗？烃都是易燃物嘛。
4. kindle, cinder => tinder.
tinder 引火物，点火物来自古英语 tynder,引火物，来自 Proto-Germanic*tund,点燃。
- tinder
- tinder: [OE] Tinder, and its relatives German zunder, Dutch tonder, and Swedish tunder, go back to a prehistoric Germanic base *tund- ‘ignite, kindle’, which also produced German anzünden, Swedish upptända, and Danish antænde ‘kindle’. Its ultimate origins are not known. The now clichéd tinder-dry is first recorded in Rudyard Kipling’s Light That Failed 1891: ‘the tinder-dry clumps of scrub’.
- tinder (n.)
- "dry, inflammable substance," Old English tynder, from or related to tendan "to kindle," from Proto-Germanic *tund- "ignite, kindle" (cognates: Gothic tandjan, Swedish tända, German zünden "to kindle").
- 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。
来自《权威词典》
- 2. 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.
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 3. The plants are as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期干旱之后干枯得如同火绒一般.
来自辞典例句
- 4. The plants as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期干旱之后干枯得如同火“绒”一般.
来自互联网
- 5. The plant is as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物经过长期乾旱之后干枯得如同火绒一般.
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