stick-to-it-iveness
坚持不懈的精神,坚忍不拔的精神,坚持不懈,坚持不懈的态度
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Informal.
- : determination and persistence, especially in spite of difficulties; perseverance: Call it stubbornness or stick-to-it-iveness, but she eventually won support for the proposal.
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Added to drinking water at concentrations of around one part per million, fluoride ions stick to dental plaque.
He wore white gloves, a dignified long black coat, and matching pants and vest, and he carried a dark walking stick.
What 15 months in a federal correction institution will be like, according to a man who counsels to-be inmates.
After some animated debate at the conference, Lelaie declared, with some frustration, “If you push on the stick, you will fly.”
That means the F-35 will be almost entirely reliant on long-range air-to-air missiles.
Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
All the operations of her brain related themselves somehow to to-morrow afternoon.
You see, they always butter their chairs so that they won't stick fast when they sit down.
"Buy something for your wife that-is-to-be," he said to his grand-nephew, as he handed him the folded paper.
Something remote and ancient stirred in her, something that was not of herself To-day, something half primitive, half barbaric.