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单词 flashpoint
释义
flashpointflash‧point /ˈflæʃpɔɪnt/ noun [countable] Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • Vukovar was one of the early flashpoints in the former Yugoslavia.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • Certain key variables highlighted by Grant and Wallace correspond to those factors considered especially crucial by the flashpoints model.
  • During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.
  • Such variables are too specific to industrial relations to be included in the flashpoints model of public disorder.
  • With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.
word sets
WORD SETS
absolute zero, nounCelsius, nounCentigrade, nounF, Fahrenheit, nounflashpoint, nounfreezing point, nounKelvin, nounlow, adjectivelow, nounplus, adjectiveroom temperature, nounsub-zero, adjectivethermometer, nounthermostat, nounzero, number
1a place where trouble or violence might easily develop suddenly and be hard to control:  Hebron has been a flashpoint for years.2[usually singular] technical the lowest temperature at which a liquid such as oil will produce enough gas to burn if a flame is put near it
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