flinty
英 ['flɪntɪ]
美 ['flɪnti]
英語の語源
- flinty (adj.)
- 1530s, "hard-hearted;" 1540s, "hard, impenetrable as flint," from flint + -y (2). Literal sense of "resembling flint" is from 1640s. Related: Flintily; flintiness.
例文
- 1. Courage and insight，action，motion are flinty ，arrogant，sharp，fight.
- 度胸、行動、運動、強硬、覇気、鋭利、争い.
- 2.EXAMPLE：The flinty old accountant in our company never smiles.
- わが社の冷淡な古い会計士は笑ったことがない。
- 3. Flinty Miss Manners does not recognize any holidays from etiquette.厳粛な礼儀正しいお嬢さんは休暇を取ったことがありません。
- 4.He nourished him with honey from the rock，and with oil from the flinty crag.
- また磐石から蜜を吸って、堅い石から油を吸う。
- 5.He looks like he could piss ice water.He appraises the newcomers with flinty eyes.
- 彼は冷たく見え、冷酷な目つきで新犯を見つめていた。
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