| 单词 | firestarter |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfirestarter firestarter n. (a) North American a piece of flammable material used to help start a fire; a firelighter (firelighter n. 2); (b) a person who harmfully or destructively sets fire to something; (c) (chiefly British) a dynamic person; a person who sets events in motion. ΚΠ 1875 National Teachers' Monthly Dec. 45 No fire-starters will ever please the great majority of people so well as the good, old-fashioned, orthodox, brimstone match. 1884 Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 29 Apr. 2/3 No systematic effort has been made to ferret out the fire-starter. 1928 Chicago Tribune 5 Aug. ii. 5/1 Shredded birch bark or pine shavings are sure fire starters. 1957 Los Angeles Times 8 Nov. 5/1 (heading) Rancher fined as fire starter. 1985 Associated Press (Nexis) 20 Sept. I'm not a guy who's going to carry a team... We've got so many firestarters. 1993 Cottage Life (Toronto, Ont.) June 69/2 (advt.) A totally natural pine fire starter that is a by-product of the U.S. forest industry. 2002 G. Bendelow & G. Brady in G. Bendelow Gender, Health & Healing ix. 172 He's a psycho, a little firestarter—he comes up behind you if you stand still and sets fire to your trousers. 2004 Mojo June 59/1 Marty Wilde had charted with Endless Sleep in July, but Cliff Richard was the real firestarter. < as lemmas |
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