Adamant
['ædəm(ə)nt] or ['ædəmənt]
解释:
(adj.) impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason; 'he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind'; 'Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him'- W.Churchill; 'an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency' .
手打:内蒂--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.
(n.) Lodestone; magnet.
卡蜜拉整理
同义词及近义词：
n. Diamond, crystallized carbon.
格伦录入
解释:
n. a very hard stone: the diamond.—adjs. Adamantē′an (Milton) hard as adamant; Adaman′tine made of or like adamant: that cannot be broken or penetrated.
休整理
娱乐性解释：
To dream of adamant, denotes that you will be troubled and defeated in some desire that you held as your life.
杰米整理
娱乐性解释：
n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.
校对:沃尔多
娱乐性解释：
From 'Adam's Aunt,' reputed to be a hard character. Hence, anything tough, or hard.
录入:内丽
例句:
- But when necessity demanded, he could be firm as adamant. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In the matter of gravy he is adamant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But it looked at me over the head of Red Whisker, and I was adamant. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Why, these latter are as hard as adamant, as straight as a line, as smooth as a floor, and as white as snow. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The column itself is clearly not of adamant. 柏拉图. 理想国.
- And now, though it seemed slighter and frailer than ever, it had suddenly hardened to adamant, and he might beat his life out against it in vain. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
希拉里校对