incendiary
incendiary 英 [ɪnˈsendiəri] 美 [ɪnˈsendieri]
n. 燃烧弹；纵火犯，放火者；煽动者 adj. 煽动的；放火的，纵火的
名词复数:incendiaries
- An incendiary device is a bomb. An incendiary statement is, "You're ugly and stupid." Both are likely to produce an explosion of one kind or another.
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- n. 燃烧弹；纵火犯，放火者；煽动者
- adj. 煽动的；放火的，纵火的
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1. Our crew, who had been well trained and prepared, used water cannon, self-made incendiary bombs, beer bottles and anything else that could be used to battle with them.
我们的船员，先前曾经接受过良好的训练，准备充分。 我们用高压水枪、自制的燃烧弹、啤酒瓶子和其他的能用的东西和海盗搏斗。
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2. Even if the government works hard to keep such incendiary events out of the official media nary a month goes by without news of a desperate evictee taking drastic measures.
尽管政府极力掩盖类似煽动事件，避免外国媒体曝光，纸包不住火，不出一个月，一些居民因遭强拆而疯狂报复的新闻就满世界皆知。
- incendiary (adj.) mid-15c., "capable of being used to set fires," from Latin incendiarius "causing a fire," from incendium "a burning, a fire, conflagration," from incendere "set on fire, light up with fire, brighten," figuratively, "incite, rouse, excite, enrage," from in- "into, in, on, upon" (from PIE root *en "in") + candere "to shine, glow, be on fire" (from PIE root *kand- "to shine").
- incendiary (n.) c. 1400, "person who sets malicious fires," from Latin incendiarius "an incendiary," literally "causing a fire" (see incendiary (adj.)). Meaning "person who enflames political passions" is from 1630s.
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