Cities in europe were tinderboxes and fires were common.

欧洲的城市是易燃易的地方，灾时有发生。

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，一个不到十年就会炸的药桶。

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, 其中每间房子都是作为一种易燃物带来花然后为焰助力, 而后焰向前很快移。

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时可燃的条件。