Cities in europe were tinderboxes and fires were common.

欧洲的城市是易燃易爆的地方，火灾时有发生。

The combination of overwhelmed doctors and irate patients can create a tinderbox.

不堪重负的医生和愤怒的患者结合在一起，可能会让情况变成一触即发的火药桶。

But this was Europe in the early 20th Century, a tinderbox less than a decade away from exploding.

然而这是20世纪初的欧洲，一个不到十年就会爆炸的火药桶。

Worse, each of these serves as a kind of tinderbox catching sparks then fueling the flames onward and those flames move fast.

而更糟的是, 间房子都是作为一种易燃物带火花然后为火焰助力, 而后推动火焰向前很快移动。

So Rudolf moved to Augsburg in 1893, started working on this engine with that sort of tinderbox idea in mind.

所以鲁道夫1893年搬到奥格斯堡，开始着手研发这种有点像火药桶概念的发动机。

One of the worst droughts the state has ever seen, plus hot temperatures and high winds, have all combined for what's being called tinderbox conditions.

这是美国有史以重的干旱之一, 加上高温和大风, 各种因素结合到一起称之为随时可燃的条件。

Much like the Great Depression, the devastating economic collapse precipitated by the 2008 stock market crash set fire to the tinderbox of an already financially-paranoid public.

与大萧条很相似，2008年股市崩盘引发的毁灭性经济崩溃，点燃了本已对金融有怀疑心理的公众的火药桶。

The massive campfire in California a few years ago happened because there was a drought in the area, making it essentially a tinderbox.

几年前发生在加利福尼亚的大规模营火事件，是由当地干旱，使得该地区几乎成了一个巨大的火柴盒。

And ended up sort of using this idea from a tinderbox that he saw that was a basically a sparkless way to ignite tinder.

并终采用了他看到的一种类似火绒盒的点火方法，这是一种基本上不需要火花就能点燃火绒的方式。

The book is" Tinderbox: How the West Sparked the AIDS Epidemic and How the World Can Finally Overcome It." That's a pretty big ambition in that title.

这本书是《火药桶：西方如何引发艾滋病流行以及世界如何终战胜它》。在这个标题，这是一个相当大的野心。

Having a negotiation with somebody who is trying to balance all of these different things, it can be a really tough emotional tinderbox that you're walking into.

与试图权衡所有这些不同因素的人进行谈判，就像走进一个非常容易引爆的情感火药桶。

Over the years, to accommodate the growing tourism industry, much of Maui's water was diverted to new hotels and golf courses and away from communities like Lahaina, drying the town out and turning it into a tinderbox.

多年，为了适应不断发展的旅游业，毛伊岛的大量水资源被引向新建的酒店和高尔夫球场， 而远离拉海纳等社区，导致该镇干旱， 变成了一座火药桶。

Yeah, it seems like crypto very much is a tinderbox and loves to take on levered positions, which basically means you borrow money to make bets worth more than the value of the capital that you're putting on.

是的，看加密货币就像一个火药桶， 特别喜欢承担杠杆头寸，这基本上意味着你借钱下注， 使得赌注的价值超过了你投入资本的价值。