Persist

例句/造句/用法:

• I said, 'Can you, at your time of life, be so headstrong, my friend, as to persist that an arm-chair is a thing to put upon a shelf and look at? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• I determined to persist, as delicately and forbearingly as possible. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If your ladyship and Mr. Betteredge persist in not agreeing with me, you must be blind to what happened before you this very day. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
• Then thou dost persist in thy refusal to confess thy guilt, and in that bold challenge which thou hast made? 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• But best of all to persist and persist and persist for ever, till one were satisfied in life. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
• However doubtful she might feel her situation to be, she would rather persist in darkness than owe her enlightenment to Selden. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• Now however, she can persist in this course of conduct no longer. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
• It would not do, of course, to say that all these distinctions persisted in full technical definiteness. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• This course, persisted in, will soon make a prodigious difference in the quantity of wool. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
• You persisted in working, you overdid it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Her path, in short, seemed to smooth itself before her as she advanced; yet the faint stir of uneasiness persisted. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
• Has he ever persisted in anything except from contradiction? 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
• Mr Merdle and his noble guest persisted in prowling about at opposite ends of the perspective. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
• Yet that sentence which contained their wisdom about particular events has acquired an emotional force which persists long after the events have passed away. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
• Three-and-sixpence has been spent in vain--the screens retire to Miss Clapp's bedroom, who persists in thinking them lovely. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
• If the visitor persists until Edison has seen both sides of the controversy, he is always willing to frankly admit that his own views may be unsound and that his opponent is right. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• At other times the unsettled condition persists, and his spleen is vented not only on the original instigator but upon others who may have occasion to see him, sometimes hours afterward. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
• He persists, too, in keeping all the provisions upstairs in his room, and serving them out. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
• It persists in flitting and chattering about town. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
• So I should; only the dear Old Lady persists in leaving it for me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
• But this state of affairs does not afford instructors an excuse for folding their hands and persisting in methods which segregate school knowledge. 約翰·杜威. 民主與教育.
• Lydgate had after all to give some scrutiny to each drawer, the Vicar laughing at himself, and yet persisting in the exhibition. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.

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