Stubborn
['stʌbən] or ['stʌbɚn]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) tenaciously unwilling or marked by tenacious unwillingness to yield .
編輯:桑德拉--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Firm as a stub or stump; stiff; unbending; unyielding; persistent; hence, unreasonably obstinate in will or opinion; not yielding to reason or persuasion; refractory; harsh; -- said of persons and things; as, stubborn wills; stubborn ore; a stubborn oak; as stubborn as a mule.
校對:罗伯特
同義詞及近義詞：
a. Obstinate, unyielding, inflexible, positive, contumacious, refractory, perverse, headstrong, cantankerous, wilful, dogged, mulish, unruly, unmanageable, ungovernable, intractable, indocile, heady, cross-grained, obdurate, stiff, pig-headed.
卡梅拉整理
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Tough, unbending, unyielding, hard, obstinate, intractable, obdurate, stiff,harsh, inflexible, headstrong, refractory, heady, contumacious, pig-headed
ANT:Docile, tractable, manageable, pliant, pliable, malleable, flexible
凯思琳校對
解釋/意思:
adj. immovably fixed in opinion: obstinate: persevering: steady: stiff: inflexible: hardy: not easily melted or worked.—v.t. (Keats) to make stubborn.—adv. Stubb′ornly.—n. Stubb′ornness.—adj. Stubb′orn-shaft′ed having strong shafts or trunks.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Yet they speak of the mule as stubborn, the woman said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- With infinite difficulty, for he was stubborn as a stone, I persuaded him to make an exchange in favour of a sober black satin and pearl-grey silk. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- I never thought Edward so stubborn, so unfeeling before. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- If he had been successful at Buena Vista his troops would no doubt have made a more stubborn resistance at Cerro Gordo. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- See him contented, however, thou stubborn varlet, said the Disinherited Knight. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- To the left, in Baird's front where Bragg's troops had massed against Sherman, the resistance was more stubborn and the contest lasted longer. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- Not a plough had ever disturbed a grain of that stubborn soil. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- In the present instance this broom was manufactured out of the tough fibres of Moore's own stubborn purpose, bound tight with his will. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Mr. Rochester heard, but heeded not: he stood stubborn and rigid, making no movement but to possess himself of my hand. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The more inflexibly stubborn the humour, the softer, the sadder the tone. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- You shall find me as stubborn as you can be artful. 簡·奧斯丁. 理智與情感.
- Yorkshire people are as yielding to persuasion as they are stubborn against compulsion. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He's just about stubborn enough. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- But Will was looking as stubborn as possible, with his lip pouting and his fingers in his side-pockets. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- Hardly so, I think,' the stubborn Mortimer strikes in. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is all one piece of sober, careful analysis, and stubborn, successful attack on the problem. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- To be sure; no doubt on't, persisted the stubborn overlooker. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Rose is a still, sometimes a stubborn, girl now. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- He was an honest, phlegmatic, stupid, but stubborn canine character. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
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