| 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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