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stick-to-it-iveness

/stik-too-it-iv-nis/US // stɪkˈtu ɪt ɪv nɪs //

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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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    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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Examples

  • 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.