| 单词 | flashpoint |
| 释义 | Related topics: Temperatureflash·point /ˈflæʃpɔɪnt/ noun [countable] 1 PLACEVIOLENTa place where trouble or violence might easily develop suddenly and be hard to control 危机即将爆发之处 Hebron has been a flashpoint for years. 数年来，希伯伦的局势一触即发。2. [usually singular] technicalTMT the lowest temperature at which a liquid such as oil will produce enough gas to burn if a flame is put near it 〔油等液体的〕闪（火）点，燃点Examples from the Corpusflashpoint• With food a more valuable commodity here than gold, the port is a flashpoint between marauding gangs of looters and bandits.• During these years race became the cultural flashpoint, and most political careers were founded on a rhetoric of purity and exclusion.• Vukovar was one of the early flashpoints in the former Yugoslavia.• Certain key variables highlighted by Grant and Wallace correspond to those factors considered especially crucial by the flashpoints model.• Such variables are too specific to industrial relations to be included in the flashpoints model of public disorder.flash·point nounChineseSyllable place or where develop violence trouble a Corpus suddenly easily might and |
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