Obstinate
['ɒbstɪnət] or ['ɑbstɪnət]
解釋/意思:
(verb.) persist stubbornly; 'he obstinates himself against all rational arguments'.
克莱尔手打--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Pertinaciously adhering to an opinion, purpose, or course; persistent; not yielding to reason, arguments, or other means; stubborn; pertinacious; -- usually implying unreasonableness.
(a.) Not yielding; not easily subdued or removed; as, obstinate fever; obstinate obstructions.
哈蒂編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Stubborn, dogged, contumacious, unyielding, inflexible, perverse, mulish, opinionated, opinionative, wilful, heady, headstrong, refractory, unruly, cross-grained, intractable, cantankerous, obdurate, persistent, self-willed, PIG-HEADED.
格拉迪斯校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Headstrong, stubborn, refractory, self-willed, pertinacious, obdurate,perverse, intractable
ANT:Amenable, complaisant, yielding, docile, ductile, characterless, irresolute,wavering
校對:拉里
解釋/意思:
adj. blindly or excessively firm: unyielding: stubborn: not easily subdued or remedied.—ns. Ob′stinacy Ob′stinateness the condition of being obstinate: excess of firmness: stubbornness: fixedness that yields with difficulty as a disease.—adv. Ob′stinately.
汉弗莱手打
娱乐性解釋/意思：
adj. Inaccessible to the truth as it is manifest in the splendor and stress of our advocacy.
艾伯特整理
例句/造句/用法:
- Can't you look at the gentleman, you obstinate boy? 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Pray whose opinion did you think would have the most obstinate vitality? 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- I am as obstinate as one, I am more stupid than one, I get as much pleasure as one, and I should like to kick like one. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- But I'll have a sovereign on with you, just to teach you not to be obstinate. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Elliston, still smarting with the knocks, kicks and scratches he had got in his scuffle with the obstinate coachman, was not in a very gentle humour. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- There's a obstinate pauper for you! 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- I should like to see you obstinate, I should. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- For a long time he was obstinate. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- He was, however, in the obstinate phase of drunkenness, and he returned by another entrance. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- I couldn't help it, my dear Sir,' replied Perker, with a smile and a pinch of snuff; 'you know how obstinate he is? 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Beaufort evidently felt it, and being unused to dismissals, stood staring at her with an obstinate line between his eyes. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 純真年代.
- I am afraid I must own that I am rather an obstinate old man. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Which two mighty powers have, as I was going to tell you, been engaged in a most obstinate war for six-and-thirty moons past. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Never was an obstinate person yet, who would own to the word! 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Bumble shook his head, as he replied, 'Obstinate people, Mr. Sowerberry; very obstinate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- But my lamented friend was obstinate. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I know I am, sir,' returned Wegg, with obstinate magnanimity. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- I've been telling you for how many years that you're one of the most opinionated and obstinate of women. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He was so obstinate, I thought it better to tell him what I really _had_ seen. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Self-willed, obstinate, selfish, and ungrateful. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- He remained moody, obstinate, and unmoved. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Still Meyler was such a sturdy, true, obstinate, English country gentleman, as to pronounce the man half-bred, impudent, and a bore. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- He was obstinate, but not firm; benevolent in his first movements; harsh and reckless when provoked. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- With regard to a large number of matters about which other men are decided or obstinate, he was the most easily manageable man in the world. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- There followed a long and obstinate civil war, the King holding Oxford, the Parliament, London. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- They would not adopt them; the governor was obstinate, and the bill was lost. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- She was always ready to forgive if asked to do so; but I seemed to her to be as an obstinate child, and that made her unyielding. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- And you mean to say you are still obstinate? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- But it is the obstinate custom of such creatures hardly ever to say what is set down for them. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- But the human reason is an obstinate thing, and will criticize and select in spite of its own resolutions. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
艾伯特整理