tinder
英 ['tɪndə]
美 ['tɪndɚ]
助記提示
1. 該詞可能與 kindle 同源。
2. candle => cand- / cend- / kind- (kindle) => tind- "ignite, kindle" + -er.
3. 諧音“烴的、烴的兒”------學過化學的都知道，易燃物不是基本上都是烴嗎？烴都是易燃物嘛。
4. kindle, cinder => tinder.
中文詞源
tinder 引火物，點火物來自古英語 tynder,引火物，來自 Proto-Germanic*tund,點燃。
英文詞源
- 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").
雙語例句
- 1. The fire started late Saturday in tinder-dry grass near the Snake River.
- 大火是星期六晚些時候在斯內克河附近幹枯的草地上燃起的。
來自《權威詞典》
- 2. Be careful what you say to Mr Smith, for he is like tinder.
- 你跟史密斯先生說話要小心, 因為他好發脾氣.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 3. The plants are as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物經過長期幹旱之後幹枯得如同火絨一般.
來自辭典例句
- 4. The plants as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物經過長期幹旱之後幹枯得如同火“絨”一般.
來自互聯網
- 5. The plant is as dry as tinder after this long drought.
- 植物經過長期乾旱之後幹枯得如同火絨一般.
來自互聯網