It was not a round pebble like the first, but a three-cornered one with sharp, flinty points

这块石子与前一块不同，它不是圆的，而是带有三个又尖又硬的棱角。

It is chilled, sweetened, bottled, and left to mature. It generally has a crisp, flinty taste that varies in degree of sweetness, depending on the type.

之后冷藏、把它弄甜、装瓶，然后静待它酿熟。通常因各类香槟酒甜度的不同而有不同的口感。

||Yet Tea Party parallels are imperfect. Flinty conservatives often scoff that moderate Republicans are no better than Democrats.|| Progressives are different: many think that Republicans are wicked. That pushes their leaders, at least, towards pragmatism. “We may have to compromise on some things [to beat the Republicans],” says a boss at Democracy For America (DFA), a group founded by Howard Dean, a former Vermont governor and presidential hopeful who claimed to represent “the Democratic wing of the Democratic Party”. Take Alaska’s embattled senator. To DFA, Mr Begich has been “terrible” on oil and gas and “not good” on guns. But he is “fantastic” on inequality. In Louisiana local DFA members are holding their noses and helping a pro-oil Democrat, Senator Mary Landrieu. Ultimately, DFA vows to be “all over” any race that might decide the fate of the Senate. Should Democrats lose in 2014, blame candidates “who didn’t run on expanding Social Security or [raising] the minimum wage,” insists Charles Chamberlain, DFA’s executive director.

||1:但茶党也不尽完美，强硬的保守党人常责备温和的共和党人比民主党人好不到哪儿去。||||2:但进步人士的观点不同，他们的很多认为共和党人十分邪恶，这至少驱使他们的领导者倾向于实用主义。||3:一位领导者在民主美国组织上说，我们必须在部分问题上做出妥协以打败共和党人，这一组织是由前佛蒙特州长哈沃德迪安创立的，他可能会成为“民主党民主翼”的代表，击败阿拉斯加州四面楚歌的议员。||4:对民主美国组织而言，贝吉奇在枪支问题上的表现糟糕，在石油天然气上尤差，却在社会不公问题上异想天开。||5:路易斯安娜州地区组织成员极不情愿的帮了一位支持石油使用的民主党人玛丽朗德里厄，但最终他们还是发誓将在任何决定其命运的竞选中取得压倒性优势。||6:该组织行政官查尔斯张伯伦说，如果民主党派在2014年大选中铩羽而归，责任就在那些不愿增加社会保险和最低工资的竞选者身上。

||1: Lillian Hellman knew how to tell a good story, and she liked to spin her own. ||2: So she destroyed old letters, suppressed records and hushed friends. ||3: She replaced hard documentation with soulful reminiscences of a Jewish childhood in New Orleans, of coming of age during the Depression and of defending her leftist ideals amid the hysteria of the cold war. ||4: Flinty yet glamorous, she was blacklisted in the 1950s because she would not confess to a crime of disloyalty she felt she never committed. ||5: In memoirs and anecdotes, Hellman presented herself as she wished to be remembered—the courageous and upright heroine of her own play—and tried to destroy or quash everything else.

||1:丽莲·海尔曼知道怎样才能叙述出一个好的故事，并且她喜欢编写关于自己的故事。||2:正因为这样，她废弃了旧的书信，禁止写记录性的文件，缄默朋友。||3:用充满感情的回忆录，取代了生硬刻板的文件。一个犹太人，在新奥尔良度过了自己的童年时光，成年时期经历了大萧条，并且在歇斯底里的冷战时期捍卫她的左翼思想。||4:在二十世纪五十年代，她被列入黑名单，原因是她不愿意承认自己犯了不忠罪，她觉得自己从来没有犯过。||5:虽然顽固了点，可是却很绚烂。在回忆录与轶事里，海尔曼这样呈现自己——一个有勇气且正直的女英雄，并且试图摧毁或是捣碎一切。

“Yongzheng Dynasty”, a drama from 1999, recast the unpopular Yongzheng emperor as a flinty corruption-fighter.

1999年的电视剧《雍正王朝》将不受欢迎的雍正皇帝重新塑造成一个强硬的反腐斗士。

It does not take too flinty a heart to interpret that as a mandate to trim higher-education funding, even if that were to hurt the poor.

该如何解读这个调查结果？即使你不是个硬心肠的人，也知道这是在说即使削减高等教育经费会伤害穷人，还是必须得做。

Analysis on weakening the flinty occupational situation from the angle of economical increasing model’transformation

缓解中国严峻就业形势的分析——从经济增长方式转变的角度

The poet’s soppy romanticism, flinty egalitarianism and ridicule of pomposity have universal appeal.

苏格兰诗人伤感的浪漫，坚定地平均思想和对奢华的嘲弄，在世界各地都产生了共鸣。

Flinty odour. A characteristic odour taste of some dry wines made from grapes grown on certain siliceous soils.

燧石般的气味：某些干葡萄酒的典型气味，它们以在高硅酸盐土壤中生长的葡萄酿制。

He looked into her flinty eyes and when she said nothing more he asked her, “You’re sure you want to handle it this way? ”

他望着她燧石似的眼睛，她不再说话时，他问：“你确定想这么处理这事儿吗？”

A narrow and flinty grand rue wound up a short incline.

一燧石铺成的窄道在这短斜坡上蜿蜒上升。

flinty soil

n.含硅土,坚硬土

flinty slate

燧石板岩

flinty crust

硬壳

flinty ground

n.坚硬地面,石质硬底

flinty hardness

淬火玻璃硬度

flinty fracture

n.燧石状断口

flinty crush rock

n.燧石状压碎岩,超糜棱岩

flinty type sludge

n.很硬的淤渣