flint

IPA/flɪnt/
KK[flˈɪnt]IPA/flɪnt/

flint — 名詞

  • flintsingular
  • flintsplural

1. a very hard dark stone with a glassy surface, often used in the past for tools o

1.名詞C2
釋義

燧石

可敲出火花的深色硬石

a very hard dark stone with a glassy surface, often used in the past for tools or for making sparks

例句

Nicholas struck the flint against steel to start the campfire.

Nicholas 用燧石敲打鋼片，生起了營火。

strike flint against steel

Min found a sharp piece of flint near the dry riverbed.

Min 在乾河床旁找到一塊尖尖的燧石。

a piece of flint

同義詞
  • stone

    is a broad everyday word, while flint names one particular hard kind of stone

  • rock

    is even more general and does not suggest the glassy, spark-making quality of flint

文法句型

a piece of flint

flint tools

flint in the ground

用法筆記

Often refers either to the stone as a material or to one piece of it. It commonly appears in contexts about old tools, fire-making, or land with chalk and hard stones.

常見錯誤

❌The hill is full of many flints.
✅The hill is full of flint.
💡When you mean the stone as a material in the ground, flint is often uncountable.

2. the small part in an old gun or a lighter that makes the spark needed to fire it

2.名詞C2
釋義

打火石

打火機或老式槍的發火零件

the small part in an old gun or a lighter that makes the spark needed to fire it or start a flame

例句

Leo changed the flint in his lighter before the mountain trip.

Leo 在上山前換了打火機裡的打火石。

change the flint in a lighter

The old gun would not fire because the flint was worn down.

那把老槍打不響，因為打火石已經磨損了。

flint in an old gun

文法句型

change the flint in a lighter

lighter flint

worn flint

用法筆記

Usually appears with lighter or old gun. In modern everyday English it most often means the small replaceable part inside a lighter, not the natural stone in sense 1.

常見錯誤

❌The lighter needs a new stone.
✅The lighter needs a new flint.
💡In a lighter, flint means the small spark-making part, not just any stone.