You could say it sparked up like flint. A fire from a " fiber" , a flashing " glint of lint" . What started a threads unraveled into shreds, what started as a " yarn" was " wick quick to burn" .

可以说它烧起来就像燧石一样。火从一个个线头烧起来，燃成灰屑。

Now, for this, the potter used a slightly more expensive raw material, which was made by combining clay and flint, and this mixture was fired at a far higher heat, with the result that the ingredients vitrified.

为了制作这个，陶工使用了一种稍微贵一点的原料，这种原料是由粘土和燧石混合而成的，这种混合物在更高的温度下烧制，结果是原料变成了玻璃化的。

These might include flint arrow heads and small knives or daggers.

这些可能包括燧石箭头和小刀或匕首。

Traders ferried in flint and obsidian from Guatemala and " artisans were able to model stucco in a very advanced stylistic manner, " says archaeologist Carlos Miguel Varela Sherrer, field chief of the site.

考古学家卡洛斯·米格尔·瓦雷拉·舍雷尔是该遗址的现场负责人，他说：“商人们从危地马拉运来燧石和黑曜石，工匠们能够以非常先进的方式制作灰泥型。”

Until about sixty years ago, the usual way to get a light in this country was to rub or strike a piece of the hard stone called flint against a piece of steel.

在从前的英国, 人们常用的生火方法就是利用一种名叫“燧石”的坚硬的石头去摩擦或者敲击铁片。这种情况一直持续到了六十年前。

O Cassius, you are yoked with a lamb That carries anger as the flint bears fire; Who, much enforced, shows a hasty spark, And straight is cold again.

啊，凯西尤！你的伙伴就是一头羔，在他的身上，就像燧石里的火花一样，虽承受最多，但会发出仓促的光芒，可是一转瞬间就已经冷下去了。

Now you can see, here Ive selected a piece of flint which is relatively long and thin - not a great deal of work to thin it down.

“现在你瞧瞧，这儿呢，我挑了块燧石，比较细长的，要削薄下来工作量并不大。”

With back to the stranger ship, and face set like a flint to his own, Ahab stood upright till alongside of the Pequod.

亚哈背对着陌生人的大船，容光焕发，像一块燧石，笔直地站在艇上，直到小艇靠拢了“裴阔德号”。

Fortunately, however, ancient men made tools of stone, especially flint, because this is easier to shape than other kinds.

然而，幸运的是，远古人用石头制作了工具，特别是用燧石，因为燧石较之其他石头更容易成形。

He must needs strike out fire at once, with iron and flint; and did he die in his bed?

倘若机缘巧合，仓促中用铁与燧石试着摩擦，火，就这样被发现了，有野人因失火死在自己床上吗？

The spearhead is made of hard flint and it's about the size of a small, slim mobile phone, but it's in the shape of a long thin leaf.

这矛头是由一颗坚硬的燧石制成的，大概一部超薄手机大小，细细长长的叶子状。

Although they had no metal tools, they were expert carvers, creating elaborate objects out of bone, flint, and jade.

尽管他们没有金属工具，但他们却是雕刻方面的专家，用骨头、燧石和碧玉雕刻出精美的作品。

Rub a steel file with a flint in a dark room, and notice what pretty sparks you get.

在黑暗的房间中用钢锉在燧石上摩擦, 就能够看到漂亮的火花。

Its flinted walls had stood there for more than 800 years.

它的燧石墙已屹立在那里 800 多年。

Flint ruins can be more vulnerable because the  cobbles are odd shapes.

燧石遗址可能更脆弱，因为那些石块形状不规则。

In falling I struck my temple against a flint.

在坠落时， 我的太阳穴撞到了一块燧石。

The process was carried out on an altar at the top of a temple, where the victim was held down by four men while a specially trained priest plunged a flint knife into the ribs, allowing the heart to be extracted.

这一过程在寺庙顶部的祭坛上进行，受害者被四个人按住， 同时一位经过专门训练的祭司将燧石刀刺入肋骨之间，从而取出心脏。

They used the repository's database to find specimens made of stuff—especially basalt, chert (of which the most familiar type is flint) and obsidian—that hominids had a penchant for working into tools before the development of bronze and iron.

他们使用该存储库的数据库来查找由以下材料制成的标本——尤其是玄武岩、燧石（其中最常见的类型是燧石）和黑曜石——原始人在青铜和铁出现之前就喜欢制作工具。

He taught the boys about stones, about flint, how that the white stone was harder than the grey; but when he had found a flint, he must also make tinder.

他教男孩们关于石头、燧石的知识， 教他们白色的石头比灰色的硬； 但是当他找到打火石时， 他还必须制造火种。

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.

他们有一种坚硬的燧石，通过与其他石头摩擦，他们将其制成工具，代替了楔子、斧头和锤子。