Flint
[flɪnt]
解释:
(noun.) a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing.
(noun.) a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River.
(noun.) a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony.
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解释:
(n.) A massive, somewhat impure variety of quartz, in color usually of a gray to brown or nearly black, breaking with a conchoidal fracture and sharp edge. It is very hard, and strikes fire with steel.
(n.) A piece of flint for striking fire; -- formerly much used, esp. in the hammers of gun locks.
(n.) Anything extremely hard, unimpressible, and unyielding, like flint.
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解释:
n. a hard mineral a variety of quartz from which fire is readily struck with steel: anything proverbially hard.—adj. made of flint hard.—n. Flint′-glass a very fine and pure kind of glass so called because originally made of calcined flints.—adjs. Flint′-heart -ed (Shak.) having a hard heart.—v.t. Flint′ify to turn to flint.—ns. Flint′iness; Flint′-lock a gun-lock having a flint fixed in the hammer for striking fire and igniting the priming.—adj. Flint′y consisting of or like flint: hard: cruel.—Flint implements arrow axe and spear heads &c. made by man before the use of metals commonly found in prehistoric graves &c.
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例句:
- While the frictional appliance is still employed in medicine, it ranks with the flint axe and the tinder-box in industrial obsolescence. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The only important improvement made in it during that long term of service was the substitution of the percussion cap for the flint lock. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- While I was at West Point the tactics used in the army had been Scott's and the musket the flint lock. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There'll be more chance o' getting milk out of a flint. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- And his teaching is set like flint against asceticism, as a mere attempt to win personal power by personal pains. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Trifling variations in the ingredients, in the proportion and in the heating, made it either pliable as kid, tougher than ox hide, as elastic as whalebone, or as rigid as flint. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Old people remember when flint-locks were plentiful everywhere. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Its head struck with such force that the early hunter decided to give it a sharp point, shaped from a flake of flint, in order that it might drive deep into the body of a deer or bear. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Flint glass contains lead; the lead makes the glass dense, and gives it great refractive power, enabling it to bend and separate light in all directions. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- His arrow heads were of flint, beautifully made, and he lashed them tightly to their shafts. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Who is not familiar with the chipped flint arrow-heads that the farmer so often turns up with his plow as a relic of the period when Americans were red-skinned instead of white? 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Then striking a flint and steel together he held it up and blowing on the end of the cork, looked at the young man's face in its glow. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- A later and easier way was to strike flint and steel together and to catch the spark thus produced on tinder or dry fungus. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- The old flint-lock was quite a modern invention, not appearing until the seventeenth century. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Notwithstanding these ingenious attempts to produce light by chemical action, the flint-and-steel retained possession of the field until a match was made that ignited by friction alone. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- They have a kind of hard flints, which, by grinding against other stones, they form into instruments, that serve instead of wedges, axes, and hammers. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The Old Man, the father and master of the group, would perhaps be engaged in hammering flints beside the fire. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Probably some of the women would hunt good flints; they would fish them out of the chalk with sticks and bring them to the squatting-place. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The sharp, burning stones and flints wounded my feet and caused me extreme anguish. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- It takes two flints to make a fire. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
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