Granite

granite



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1. 花崗岩

2. 堅毅,冷酷無情



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–noun 

1. a coarse-grained igneous (火成岩) rock composed chiefly of orthoclase (正長石) and albite feldspars (長石) and of quartz, usually with lesser amounts of one or more other minerals, as mica (雲母), hornblende (角閃石), or augite. (輝石)

2. anything compared to this rock in great hardness, firmness, or durability. 





　

There are no simple heroes or villains in the fast-paced, heavily plotted pic. And though there's little out-and-out comedy, there's still a sense of Verhoeven and Soeteman having some fun while keeping viewers on their [toes] and occasionally letting [rip] with gunfire and action. (Latter is always explosively staged, with granite-hard bullet play.)





filch

flinch 

Shelley never flinches [from] how horrible he is, 

she allows him to have [a] [humanizing] emotional fragility that Jeremy Sisto plays with great skill.

cringe (←) He always cringes before the [boss].

cower (↑) The [dog] cowered when its [master] beat it.

flinty 

flint, esp. in hardness. a flinty [heart].

Tenuous