Adamant
['ædəm(ə)nt] or ['ædəmənt]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(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
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Diamond, crystallized carbon.
格伦錄入
解釋/意思:
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
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
娱乐性解釋/意思：
n. A mineral frequently found beneath a corset. Soluble in solicitate of gold.
校對:沃尔多
娱乐性解釋/意思：
From 'Adam's Aunt,' reputed to be a hard character. Hence, anything tough, or hard.
錄入:内丽
例句/造句/用法:
- But when necessity demanded, he could be firm as adamant. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In the matter of gravy he is adamant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But it looked at me over the head of Red Whisker, and I was adamant. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Why, these latter are as hard as adamant, as straight as a line, as smooth as a floor, and as white as snow. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In this cave are twenty lamps continually burning, which, from the reflection of the adamant, cast a strong light into every part. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The column itself is clearly not of adamant. 柏拉圖. 理想國.
- 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. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
希拉里校對