Insist
[ɪn'sɪst]
解释:
(verb.) assert to be true; 'The letter asserts a free society'.
(verb.) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; 'I must insist!'.
录入:泰茜--From WordNet
解释:
(v. i.) To stand or rest; to find support; -- with in, on, or upon.
(v. i.) To take a stand and refuse to give way; to hold to something firmly or determinedly; to be persistent, urgent, or pressing; to persist in demanding; -- followed by on, upon, or that; as, he insisted on these conditions; he insisted on going at once; he insists that he must have money.
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同义词及反义词:
SYN:Stand, demand, maintain, contend, persist, persevere, urge
ANT:Abandon, waive, concede, surrender, yield, forego
卡米尔录入
解释:
v.i. to dwell on emphatically in discourse: to persist in pressing: (Milt.) to persevere.—n. Insist′ence perseverance in pressing any claim grievance &c.: pertinacity.—adj. Insist′ent urgent: prominent: upright on end.—adv. Insist′ently.—n. Insist′ure persistence: (Shak.) constancy.
胡安娜校对
例句:
- Some make fun of it, some overpraise, and nearly all insist that I had a deep theory to expound, when I only wrote it for the pleasure and the money. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- Mr. Sam Wynne coming up with great haste, to insist on the elder girls joining in the game as well as the younger ones, Caroline was again left alone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- I beg, I insist that you will not invite any one to this house. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- If you insist upon being determined by conditions you do hesitate about saying I shall. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If you insist, you take your unjust advantage of me, and I give way immediately. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And when you have given _your_ ball, she added, I shall insist on their giving one also. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
- I insist on your leaving the room. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The stranger insisted on making Mr. Godfrey precede him; Mr. Godfrey said a few civil words; they bowed, and parted in the street. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- I insisted on writing to Napier, who was at Melton Mowbray. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- But, he, Pablo, blinded the _guardia civil_ who was wounded, the gypsy insisted. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- The rapidity with which he insisted on travelling, bred several disputes between him and the party whom he had hired to attend him as a guard. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Fight your way out of it somehow--you're young and can do it, she insisted. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Elliston insisted, and the white soup made its appearance. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- But the law insists on your smoking your cigar, sir, when you have once chosen it. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- They are opposed to the Countess's idea; but she is firm, and insists on a legal opinion. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- Uncle doesn't know ten words, and insists on talking English very loud, as if it would make people understand him. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- The natural political map of the world insists upon itself. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The parliament of Great Britain insists upon taxing the colonies; and they refuse to be taxed by a parliament in which they are not represented. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- Miss Porter insists that we have no absolute proof of his death--nor have we. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The renascence of China that began with Suy and culminated in Tang was, Mr. Fu insists, a real new birth. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- It was really a letter insisting on the payment of a bill for furniture. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- You don't have to keep insisting on it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- He would not let her sit up, and offended Dixon desperately by insisting on waiting upon her himself. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- Possibly the leaders would travel too fast and too far on the road to perfection if conservatism did not also play its salutary part in insisting that the procession move forward as a whole. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- A day or two later Mr. De Loche called on me in Memphis to apologize for his apparent incivility in not insisting on my staying for dinner. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
- There is, however, grave danger that in insisting upon this end, existing economic conditions and standards will be accepted as final. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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