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insistency

/in-sis-tuhn-see/US // ɪnˈsɪs tən si //

执着,坚持不懈,执着的精神,执著

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural in·sist·en·cies.

    • : insistence.

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Examples

  • If his cause is just we gain by his insistency and determination.

  • But she had such a way of nagging insistency; and he was really a weak man.

  • There was a compelling insistency in the sound and, with a muttered imprecation, he jerked the receiver from the hook.

  • At the sound of it the primeval lover, newly renascent in Mr. Strumley's breast, cowed before the power of genitorial insistency.

  • One object, in particular, is mentioned with insistency by nearly all the chronicles, both Mussulman and Christian.