Tinder

例句:

• While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• Presently I saw his blue lips again, breathing on the tinder, and then a flare of light flashed up, and showed me Orlick. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The tinder was damp,--no wonder there,--and one after another the sparks died out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Within the memory of some persons now living, the tinder box was a valuable asset to the home, particularly in the pioneer regions of the West. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• A later and easier way was to strike flint and steel together and to catch the spark thus produced on tinder or dry fungus. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• You used to catch fire like tinder on the subject when you were a girl. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Prior to the Nineteenth Century, and in fact until about 1833, the old flint and steel and tinder box were the clumsy and uncertain means for producing fire. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Emanuel never _was_ reasonable; flint and tinder that he was! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He is like a bit of tinder. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It burned like tinder, and by the time she reached the spot, nothing could be seen but flames. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• In those good old times, it was a regular household care to provide a sufficiency of tinder, to see that it was kept dry, and that there was a proper flint with fire in it. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.

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