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persist

/per-sist, -zist/US // pərˈsɪst, -ˈzɪst //UK // (pəˈsɪst) //

坚守,坚持不懈,坚持,执着

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to continue steadfastly or firmly in some state, purpose, course of action, or the like, especially in spite of opposition, remonstrance, etc.: to persist in working for world peace; to persist in unpopular political activities.
    • : to last or endure tenaciously: The legend of King Arthur has persisted for nearly fifteen centuries.
    • : to be insistent in a statement, request, question, etc.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbcarry on, carry through
Forms: persisted, persisting, persists

Examples

  • She found that even after considering geographic and demographic factors, the “Rush Limbaugh effect” persists.

  • Ultimately they discovered that the turbulent patch persisted as long as the barrage kept coming.

  • A blunted stress response persisted into middle childhood, even after an average of seven to eight years in a household with healthy caregiving.

  • This allows stable patterns of useful behavior to emerge and persist.

  • That’s the paperwork used to report interest income — and serves as a sign that low interest rates could persist.

  • While violent offenses are dramatically down in Bed Stuy, pockets of violence persist here.

  • In Sierra Leone, the WHO report reads, “steep increases persist.”

  • “That said, underneath the surface differences in threat perception and how to deal with Russia persist,” he says.

  • And yet the real battle might be an even harder one: against the attitudes that allow all this to persist in 21st-Century India.

  • He went on to predict that Hong Kong will see “economic chaos” should the protests persist.

  • This fact worried him considerably, and made him persist in his own mind that the company would accept it.

  • Typhoid bacilli have been known to persist for months and even years after the attack.

  • This habit of scribble may persist after a child attempts a linear description of the parts of an object.

  • Doubtless Schopenhauer was right: it is merely the furious determination of the race to persist.

  • I suppose you will repent, and seek forgiveness for your sins, Worse; or will you persist in putting it off?