tinderbox

名詞

歴史的広義比喩的用法

日本語の意味

（歴史的な用法）火打石、鋼、および乾燥して非常に細かく繊維状に分かれた燃料（火種）を入れておき、火を起こすために使用された小さな容器、すなわち火起こし用の小箱

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He rummaged through the old chest and found a rusty tinderbox that had belonged to his grandfather.

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彼は古い箱をあさり、祖父のものであったさびた火打ち箱（火打ち石と火打ち金、乾いた火口の入った小さな箱）を見つけた。

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意味（1）

Haines helped himself and snapped the case to. He put it back in his sidepocket and took from his waistcoatpocket a nickel tinderbox, sprang it open too, and, having lit his cigarette, held the flaming spunk towards Stephen in the shell of his hands.

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意味（2）

(by extension) A place that is so dry and hot that there is danger of fire.

And then came the night that made America famous / Was it carelessness or someone's sick idea of a joke? / In the tinderbox trap that we hippies lived in, someone struck a spark

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