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").
实用例句
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.
