查询词典 flintlock

Formerly a British infantryman armed with a light flintlock musket .

一个备有轻型燧发步枪的英国步兵。

A: The flintlock pistol from Predator 2 was inscribed Raphael Adolini 1715, thus proving that either Yautja are very long-lifed creatures, or just that their clans have been hunting on Earth for hundreds of years.

答：那把燧石手枪上面记着"Raphael Adolini 1715"，证明 Yautja 是一种寿命很长的生物，并且已经在地球上狩猎了数百年，根据"XXX"这把手枪是一个Yautja在1718年猎杀一帮海盗时获得的奖品。

Indeed, they often act as a linguistic fossil record, preserving objects and behaviour that have long since fallen into petrified obsolescence. Industrious sorts no longer burn the midnight oil. Flashes in the pan are common even if the flintlock muskets that gave rise to them are museum pieces. Colours are still nailed to masts, metal though they now usually are.

勤奋的人们不再是"焚膏"以继晷；"火药池中瞬间闪现的火光（ flashes in the pan ，比喻显耀一时却终归失败或昙花一现）"现在也很常见［译注：暗示现在这个成语已不再适合比喻昙花一现了］，即使造就它的燧发枪已经躺在了博物馆里；要想"公开表明立场（ nail one's colours to the mast ）"还得把钉子钉在桅杆上，尽管现在的桅杆大都是金属的了。

OPERATION Flintlock has begun.

燧发机行动开启。

Flashes in the pan are common even if the flintlock muskets that gave rise to them are museum pieces.

如果使火药闪光的都是些博物馆的藏品燧发枪，那么&火枪冒出的仅有闪光--叫人空欢喜一场&将是平常事。

Flashes in the pan are common even if the flintlock muskets that gave rise to them are museum pieces.

射击便要冒火的燧发枪早已成了博物馆的古董，可由此产生的习语却仍司空见惯。

There had been a moment during the breakfast meeting, though, after the backslapping and the small talk and when all of us were seated, with Vice President Cheney eating his eggs Benedict impassively and Karl Rove at the far end of the table discreetly checking his BlackBerry, that I witnessed a different side of the man.

那次早餐会期间，在表示过关心和寒暄以后，我们所有人坐了下来，我注意观察了一下，副总统切尼面无表情地吃着班尼迪克蛋（Eggs benedict，源自美国，以英式松饼、火腿、水煮蛋以及荷兰酱组合而成），卡尔。罗夫在餐桌的远端谨慎地经常查看他的黑莓手机，我目睹了他所不为人知的一面。

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