tinderbox

美 [ˈtɪndərˌbɑks]
英 [ˈtɪndə(r)ˌbɒks]
  • n.引火盒；一触即发的形势
  • 网络易燃物；火绒盒；火绒箱
复数：tinderboxes  

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tinderbox
n.
1.
（旧时点火用的）火绒盒，引火盒a box containing dry material, used in the past for lighting a fire
2.
一触即发的形势a situation that is likely to become dangerous

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1.
Referred to the crowded prison as a tinderbox of suppressed violence.
把拥挤的监狱称作一个装满了被压制的暴力的火药筒
dict.bioon.com
2.
It may be a long way from the Rift Valley, a tribal tinderbox where jobs are scarce and land even scarcer, to the tidy streets of The Hague.
也许从东非大裂谷，一个部落的火药桶，在那里工作是稀少的，而土地更为荒凉，到海牙熙熙攘攘的大街有很长的路程。
bbs.cnesa.net
3.
'Those pressure points are becoming more of a tinderbox because there is no relief, ' said Paul Miller of FBR Capital Markets.
券商FBRCapitalMarkets的保罗-米勒（PaulMiller）说，上述问题正变得越来越像是一个火药桶，因为压力得不到缓解。
chinese.wsj.com
4.
That means, in particular, making China see that a tinderbox it has long regarded as a strategic asset has become an appalling liability.
这意味着，尤其得让中国明白，其长期以来视为战略资产的这个危险之地，已变成了可怕的阻碍。
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5.
Jos is a tinderbox that sits in Nigeria's "middle belt" , between the country's predominantly Muslim north and largely Christian south.
乔斯地处尼日利亚的“中间地带”，冲突一触即发。北部主要为穆斯林，南面主要为基督徒。
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6.
The euro is poised to finish the year much where it began: whipsawed by Europe's debt tinderbox while holding to potentially flimsy support.
预计在今年结束时，欧元仍跟年初的时候差不多：在欧债危机影响下上下起伏，同时获得一个可能很脆弱的支持。
chinese.wsj.com
7.
Left out of work or underemployed in the informal sector and subsistence farming, they are a political tinderbox.
除去失业者和非正式工作的未充分就业者，再除去务农的，青壮年是政治火药桶。
bbs.ecocn.org
8.
And its neocolonial methods of governance in the north Caucasus have created a tinderbox.
而在北高加索其新殖民主义的管制方式又点燃了一个火药桶。
article.yeeyan.org
9.
The cattle he ran kept the valley grazed , but today the grass stands thigh-high, creating a tinderbox.
他曾在山谷里放牧，但今天的草地上却是高耸的基地站，还制造了一个“火药箱”。
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10.
As Russia's new president, Mr. Medvedev inherits this tinderbox.
作为俄罗斯新总统，梅德韦杰夫继承了这个火药桶。
www.stnn.cc