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 uppt?nda, and Danish ant?nde ‘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 t?nda, German zünden "to kindle").
例文
1. The fire started late Saturday in tinder -dry grass near the Snake River.
大火は土曜日の夜、スネーク川付近の枯れた芝生で燃え上がった。
2.Be careful what you say to Mr Smith，for he is like tinder .
スミスさんと話すときは気をつけてね。彼はかんしゃく持ちだから。
3.The plants are as dry as tinder after this long drought.
植物は長期の干ばつを経て、ビロードのように枯れてしまった。
4.The plants as dry as tinder after this long drought.
植物は長い干ばつの後、火の「絨毯」のように枯れてしまった。
5.The plant is as dry as tinder after this long drought.