火引子 meaning in English
material for starting fire
Examples
- They were eloquent in their distress ; but they presently discovered that the fire had eaten so far up under the great log it had been built against where it curved upward and separated itself from the ground , that a handbreadth or so of it had escaped wetting ; so they patiently wrought until , with shreds and bark gathered from the under sides of sheltered logs , they coaxed the fire to burn again
不过他们很快发现，原先那堆火已经把他们靠着生火的那根倒在地上的大树干在它弯起离地面有些距离的地方烧得凹进去很深，因此有块巴掌大的地方没有被雨淋湿。于是他们极有耐性地想方设法，从那些有遮掩的树下，寻来些碎叶树皮做火引子，总算又把那堆火救活了。