There is only one reason that a couple like Wilma and Fred Flintstone could stay together, despite her somewhat shrewish nature and his boorish antics.

仅有一个原因可以解释为什么威尔玛和弗雷德·福林斯能够生活在一起，尽管威尔玛生性有些暴躁，弗雷德也有些粗鲁滑稽。

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Much of what we are about centers on the same impulses to eat, procreate, fight or flee that motivated Fred Flintstone.

人之所以为人， 大多基于饮食、男女、斗争、避凶的冲动，在原始社群就是这样了。

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"At the rock-crushing plants they literally blow the whistle, Fred Flintstone-style, and everyone goes home for the day, " says Brewster.

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Wishbook, the size of a Flintstone steak, touched off a months-long chain of daydreams and fantasies about lives lived in different futures: A Ted Williams first baseman's mitt could send your fate branching off in one direction, or so it seemed, a Coleman camp stove or Roman legionnaire's sword along other avenues entirely.

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