Insist
[ɪn'sɪst]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) assert to be true; 'The letter asserts a free society'.
(verb.) be emphatic or resolute and refuse to budge; 'I must insist!'.
錄入:泰茜--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(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.
艾德里安整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Stand, demand, maintain, contend, persist, persevere, urge
ANT:Abandon, waive, concede, surrender, yield, forego
卡米尔錄入
解釋/意思:
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.
胡安娜校對
例句/造句/用法:
- 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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. 雪麗.
- I beg, I insist that you will not invite any one to this house. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- If you insist upon being determined by conditions you do hesitate about saying I shall. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- If you insist, you take your unjust advantage of me, and I give way immediately. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- And when you have given _your_ ball, she added, I shall insist on their giving one also. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- I insist on your leaving the room. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Instead she insisted that he accept, and, indeed, take her with him. 愛德格·賴斯·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. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I insisted on writing to Napier, who was at Melton Mowbray. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But, he, Pablo, blinded the _guardia civil_ who was wounded, the gypsy insisted. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- 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. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Fight your way out of it somehow--you're young and can do it, she insisted. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Elliston insisted, and the white soup made its appearance. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- But the law insists on your smoking your cigar, sir, when you have once chosen it. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- They are opposed to the Countess's idea; but she is firm, and insists on a legal opinion. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- 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·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- The natural political map of the world insists upon itself. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- 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. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- Miss Porter insists that we have no absolute proof of his death--nor have we. 愛德格·賴斯·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·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- It was really a letter insisting on the payment of a bill for furniture. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- You don't have to keep insisting on it. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- He would not let her sit up, and offended Dixon desperately by insisting on waiting upon her himself. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- 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. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- 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·格蘭特. U.S.格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- There is, however, grave danger that in insisting upon this end, existing economic conditions and standards will be accepted as final. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
昌西整理