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单词 determination
释义
determination
(dɪtɜːʳmɪnʃən )
1. uncountable noun [oft NOUN to-infinitive] B2
Determination is the quality that you show when you have decided to do something and you will not let anything stop you.
Everyone concerned acted with great courage and determination.
He reaffirmed their determination to tackle inflation.
His cooking reflects a determination to acknowledge his northern roots.
There was an expression of fierce determination on her face.
Synonyms: resolution, purpose, resolve, drive  
2.  See also determine
Quotations:
When the going gets tough, the tough get going
Collocations:
absolute determination
They will demand absolute determination and self-discipline.
The Sun (2009)
She has an absolute determination to resurrect the legal career that she shelved when her first child was born.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
I was impressed with the absolute determination of negotiators to put their members' best interests above anything else.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
dogged determination
The same dogged determination can be found in his nephew.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
It is an uncomfortable situation that he has handled with diplomacy, dignity and dogged determination.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
But her vulnerability made us root for her more, and behind the tears lay a dogged determination.
The Sun (2014)
fierce determination
A fierce determination and taking setbacks in her stride are her great strengths on the course.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
He said: 'Our British workers have done a brilliant job and have a fierce determination to be number one'.
The Sun (2013)
Out of her misery has grown a fierce determination to stop the waste of more young lives.
The Sun (2010)
final determination
The statutory test in section 82(4) did not require a final determination of facts.
Times, Sunday Times
The decision in the care proceedings was not, and could not be a final determination of the criminal proceedings.
Times, Sunday Times
State workers still make the final determination of eligibility.
Houston Chronicle
The final determination will set limits on what water companies can spend from 2020 to 2025.
Times,Sunday Times
It will firm up its proposals in the next few months and, after a three-month consultation, will publish a final determination next spring.
Times, Sunday Times
grim determination
Grim determination drove me through the fatigue.
Times, Sunday Times (2006)
They rowed hard with grim determination in each stroke.
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Then a horde of toddlers thunder into the room, their faces fixed in grim determination.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
gritty determination
To their credit, they showed a gritty determination to stay in the contest.
The Sun (2015)
As a player, he had a gritty determination to succeed.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
At work, you have smart ideas plus gritty determination.
The Sun (2014)
iron determination
That, and his iron determination not to buckle or give ground.
Times, Sunday Times
There his iron determination came to the fore.
Times, Sunday Times
It has been the triumph of an iron determination allied with talents that his potential rivals could not match.
Times, Sunday Times
But his legacy was a nation on the cusp of modernity, built by a man of iron determination, who, almost to the end, had never stopped moving.
Times, Sunday Times
Throughout, he displayed great courage and an iron determination to inflict the utmost damage on the enemy.
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judicial determination
The appeal open to the applicant had therefore given her adequate protection regarding the judicial determination of her civil right.
Times, Sunday Times
That pointed strongly to ordinary judicial determination of that issue.
Times, Sunday Times
More fundamentally, in what sense could the creditor be 'aware' that there had been a breach of duty, in advance of a judicial determination of the issue?
Times, Sunday Times
Such conflicts rarely lend themselves to judicial determination.
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The imposition of that legal duty was a matter for judicial determination, involving criteria of public or legal policy consistent with constitutional norms.
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make a determination
Both of these facts make his determination all the more laudable.
Times, Sunday Times
The state supreme court concluded that the civil courts can make this determination without any inquiries into internal church discipline.
Christianity Today
This will provide denominational officials with an opportunity to inquire into each applicant's background and make a determination as to each person's suitability for ministry.
Christianity Today
Again, only a court can make this determination, upon the filing of a proper objection.
Christianity Today
And they have to make that determination.
Chicago Sun-Times
pure determination
In all you do today, your mix of ability and pure determination will get good results.
The Sun
You have a mix of good ideas and pure determination in every department of your life.
The Sun
This gives you the ideas, the businesslike attitude and the pure determination to succeed.
The Sun
You'll have the imaginative ideas and pure determination you need to get home plans moving.
The Sun
You feel a surge of pure determination and are ready chase the career you really want.
The Sun
quiet determination
He's got this quiet determination about him.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
You have a quiet determination that gets things done while others are still making up their minds.
The Sun (2008)
Instead of just having good intentions, you now have the quiet determination to commit to a healthy lifestyle plan.
The Sun (2011)
relentless determination
This combination of deep insecurity and relentless determination was lethal.
The Sun
The competitors on show now are very much the equal of their able-bodied predecessors in the commitment and relentless determination of their training.
Times, Sunday Times
He split up with his long-term girlfriend last year, partly, he says, because of his relentless determination to accelerate his social media following.
Times, Sunday Times
renewed determination
But they now have a renewed determination to pull off a great escape.
The Sun
With renewed determination we continued our plans for a workshop for the unemployed.
Christianity Today
Bankers reacted nervously to signs of a renewed determination to crack down on their industry.
Times, Sunday Times
Once reset the individual moves forward with renewed determination to foster and appreciate success.
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But when they misinterpret a number of chance events to be covert attacks by their respective neighbor, they resume their fighting with renewed determination.
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require determination
But to end a conflict that has raged for more than 60 years will require determination and tenacity.
Times, Sunday Times
Navigating these uncharted waters will require determination, consistency of purpose and government transparency.
Times, Sunday Times
Navigating a course through such choppy waters will require determination, guile and vision.
Times, Sunday Times
Would marriage also not require determination and flexibility?
Globe and Mail
A successful foreign policy requires determination and resolve.
Times, Sunday Times
resolute determination
Walking its entirety takes four or five months and resolute determination: only about half of those who set off will make it.
Times, Sunday Times
The town was open to the sea, strongly fortified, and defended with resolute determination and courage by its citizens.
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These poems, though derivative, indicate a resolute determination to challenge the literary conventionalities.
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Their leader inspired them with his own resolute determination and bound them into one coherent body.
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ruthless determination
A combination of money, improved co-ordination and ruthless determination worked before and could be harnessed again.
Times,Sunday Times
Nobody doubts his commercial acumen, and one might even admire his ruthless determination to secure de facto monopolies in these areas.
Times, Sunday Times
Again, his ruthless determination won the day.
Times, Sunday Times
But by starting out fronting ska bands and gigging at tiny venues, her driving force seems to be a ruthless determination to do her own thing.
The Sun
It requires the ruthless determination appropriate to water-stockpiling before a drought - you do whatever it takes.
Times, Sunday Times
sheer determination
It's only thanks to his sheer determination, strength and courage that he is here today.
The Sun (2012)
Her sheer determination has brought her many medal-winning successes as a gymnast.
The Sun (2007)
I have enormous respect for the ingenuity, originality and sheer determination of entrepreneurs.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
show determination
We've come from behind and shown great determination and courage.
The Sun (2006)
They show much more determination to beat the competition.
The Sun (2010)
The council continues to show a determination to succeed with the scheme, despite a lack of public support.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
single-minded determination
They did it by their own supreme efforts and their own single-minded determination to win.
The Sun (2008)
In the right circumstances, such single-minded determination can be a force for progress.
The Sun (2011)
You have the innovative ideas and single-minded determination to keep going with your plans until they work.
The Sun (2009)
steely determination
I've always admired your air of steely determination.
The Sun (2011)
He is so laid-back but has steely determination on the field.
The Sun (2010)
You can build good working relationships and also have a steely determination to succeed.
The Sun (2014)
stubborn determination
You'd hoped that with time and stubborn determination you could ride things out.
Times, Sunday Times
Her stubborn determination to go it alone, her refusal to seek any form of cross-party consensus, those wretched red lines of hers.
Times, Sunday Times
The prevailing attitude, though, seemed to be a stubborn determination to stick to routine.
Times, Sunday Times
Here was a potential leader of principle and stubborn determination who, emerging from the radical fringes of the parliamentary party, rejected the presiding economic and political orthodoxies of the age.
Times,Sunday Times
This stubborn determination often flew in the face of medical advice.
Times, Sunday Times
will and determination
This week we've had another reminder why you can never discount the will and determination of founders.
Times, Sunday Times
Her will and determination were certainly crucial, not in 1979 but later.
Times, Sunday Times
It's true: it takes an enormous amount of will and determination, not to mention money.
Times, Sunday Times
It took iron will and determination for him to stay on the straight and narrow.
The Sun
But having them by my side gave me the will and determination to get better.
Times, Sunday Times
Translations:
Chinese: 决心
Japanese: 決意
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