flint

英 [flɪnt] 美 [flɪnt]

• n. 打火石；极硬的东西

英英释义

Noun:

1. a hard kind of stone; a form of silica more opaque than chalcedony

2. a river in western Georgia that flows generally south to join the Chattahoochee River at the Florida border where they form the Apalachicola River

3. a city in southeast central Michigan near Detroit; automobile manufacturing

Adjective:

1. showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings;

   "his flinty gaze"
   "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart"
   

例句

用作名词 (n.)

1. It is possible to strike fire from flint.
   火石可以打火。
2. This layer of rock contains a lot of flint.
   这一岩层中有大量燧石。
3. He has a heart of flint.
   他有一副铁石心肠。
4. She gave him a look as hard as flint.
   她冷酷地瞪他一眼。

经典引文

• Callum, flint to other considerations, was penetrable to superstition.

  出自： Sir W. Scott

词汇搭配

• flint glass 无色玻璃
• get water from a flint 击燧取水
• flay a flint 贪得无厌
• wring water from a flint 击燧取水
• set one's face like a flint 坚定不移
• flint-hearted 铁石心肠的
• heart of flint heart of stone
• old flint 老吝啬鬼
• fix someone's flint for him 惩罚某人
• skin a flint 极吝啬
• flint brick 燧石粘土砖
• flint glazing 燧石砑光
• flint pebble 燧石子
• flint clay 燧土
• boulder flint 卵石
• flint needle 砭针
• flint hide 干皮
• flint ball 燧石
• flint stone 燧石
• borate flint 含硼电石,含硼火石玻...

近反义词

【近义词】

• stony 石头的
• flinty 燧石的
• obdurate 固执的
• granitic 花岗石的