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一样。火从一个个线烧起来，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原料，这种原料是由粘土和燧混合而成，这种混合物在更高温度下烧制，结果是原料变成了玻璃化。

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

这些可能包括燧箭和小刀或匕首。

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·舍雷尔是该遗址责人，他说：“商人们从危地马拉运来燧和黑曜，工匠们能够以非常先进方式制作灰泥型。”

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.

在从前英国, 人们常用生火方法就是利用一种名叫“燧”坚硬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！你伙伴就是一羔羊，愤怒在他身上，就像燧里火花一样，虽承受最多，但会发出仓促光芒，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.

“在你瞧瞧，这儿呢，我挑了块燧，比较细长，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.

亚哈背对着陌生人大船，容光焕发，像一块燧，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，幸运是，远古人用制作了工具，特别是用燧，因为燧较之其他更容易成形。

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，仓促中用铁与燧试着摩擦，火，就这样被发了，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.

这矛是由一颗坚硬燧制成，大概一部超薄手机大小，细细长长叶子状。

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专家，用骨、燧和碧玉雕刻出精美作品。

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

在黑暗房间中用钢锉在燧上摩擦, 就能够看到漂亮火花。

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

它燧墙已屹立在那里 800 多年。

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

燧遗址可能更脆弱，因为那些块形状不规则。

In falling I struck my temple against a flint.

在坠落时， 我太阳穴撞到了一块燧。

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祭坛上进行，受害者被四个人按住， 同时一位经过专门训练祭司将燧刀刺入肋骨之间，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.

他们使用该存储库数据库来查找由以下材料制成标本——尤其是玄武岩、燧（其中最常见类型是燧）和黑曜——原始人在青铜和铁出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、燧知识， 教他们白色比灰色硬； 但是当他找到打火时， 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.

他们有一种坚硬燧，通过与其他摩擦，他们将其制成工具，代替了楔子、斧和锤子。