stony的意思|stony的解释-里氏词典

stony ['stonɪ]

a. 多石的, 无情的

stony
stonier, stoniest

[ adj ]

abounding in rocks or stones

<adj.all>

rocky fields

stony ground

bouldery beaches

showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings

<adj.all>

his flinty gaze

the child's misery would move even the most obdurate heart

hard as granite

<adj.all>

a granitic fist

Stony \Ston"y\, a. [Compar. {Stonier}; superl. {Stoniest}.] [AS.
st[=a]nig. See {Stone}.]
1. Of or pertaining to stone, consisting of, or abounding in,
stone or stones; resembling stone; hard; as, a stony
tower; a stony cave; stony ground; a stony crust.

2. Converting into stone; petrifying; petrific.

The stony dart of senseless cold. --Spenser.

3. Inflexible; cruel; unrelenting; pitiless; obdurate;
perverse; cold; morally hard; appearing as if petrified;
as, a stony heart; a stony gaze.

{Stony coral}. (Zo["o]l.) Same as {Stone coral}, under
{Stone}.

The base is in the al-Hajarah region, a stony plain traversed by the Trans-Arabian Pipe Line, which extends 1,068 miles from the gulf coast to southern Lebanon.
This beast was extinct in the wild until it was reintroduced to the stony Oman central desert preserve at Yalooni in the Jiddat al Harasis.
"I've got horses in my blood," Lipschitz said when asked why he started a rodeo and riding school near Jerusalem, whose stony slopes are more associated with biblical shepherds than cowboys of the Old West.
The event took place under the stony gaze of a three-story portrait of Communist leader Vladimir Lenin erected for the Revolution Day parade scheduled for Wednesday.
It is only a foot-high when in flower and, despite the books, appears to be completely happy in full sun and a stony soil. Beside it, I had a group of the various Parahebes in white and pale milk-blue flowers.
As a result, the expedition leader's advice to take an early Zodiac ashore and catch the last one back was worth heeding. On one of my trips ashore I watched a mass of chin-strap penguins in an odoriferous rookery high on a stony hillside.
But on the many goat trails and donkey tracks that crisscross the West Bank's stony hillsides, a steady stream of illicit traffic made its way around the barriers.
Barry watched the 39-year-old Moore with a stony stare as she described their relationship.
The even lonelier beach grave of a drowned man overlooks the stromatolites. These are stony, mushroom-shaped columns built in shallow water by microscopic cyanobacteria.
They are superb plants for carpets or edgings in dry, stony soils and I have been enjoying their long-flowering season for more than 30 years.
Yet another indication is the stony official silence about a proposal made at the beginning of this year to expand further the role of the private sector.
That's the magic of the place. There's something in the wolf-winds, or in the stony fields, or in the mountain fastnesses, that sets it apart.
The soil is thin and stony - suitable only for vines and olives.
But Ferrey was met with stony silence and stares.
Now, recalling the audience of stunned, stony faces that greeted that remark, he says: "I seriously thought I was going to be lynched.
She gestures out the window to the stony hillsides.
If so the Security Council, before it decides to assume the worst and embark on the stony road of sanctions, should be looking for ways to get that strategy back on track.
Mr. Shweiheh, frail, toothless and almost blind, relied on his son to work his few acres of stony ground.
But despite his conciliatory tone and offer of full partnership to the assembly, he drew stony silence from the opposition and only polite applause from his own party's lawmakers.

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