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

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。

2.Cities in europe were tinderboxes and fires were common.

欧洲的城市是易燃易爆的地方，火灾有发生。

3.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，一个到十就会爆炸的火药桶。

4.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, 其中每间房子都是作为一种易燃物带来火花然后为火焰助力, 而后推动火焰向前很快移动。

5.There's still no real plan for dealing with this, and the scenes at Manston feel dangerously close to a tinderbox.

目前还没有真正的计划来处理这个问题，曼斯顿的场景让人感觉很危险， 就像一个火药桶。机翻

6.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.

这是美有以来最严重的干旱之一, 加上高温和大风, 各种因素结合到一起称之为随可燃的条件。

7.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。

8.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最终战胜它》。在这个标题中，这是一个相当大的野心。机翻