单词 | stubborn |
释义 | stub·born I. 1. a. < break the stubborn will which had been perverted at the source — Henry Miller > < jeopardized … by his stubborn and tactless maneuvers — A.L.Funk > < stubborn carelessness > b. < the resources of the stubborn mind, the stout heart — A.E.Stevenson †1965 > < stubborn yeomen who parade their independence — V.L.Parrington > < stubborn conviction > < stubborn courage > < stubborn resistance > c. < had a stubborn profile, like a willful horse — Katherine A. Porter > < under the stubborn arch of their brows — Walter O'Meara > 2. a. < was able to start a stubborn fire engine — V.G.Heiser > < the lashes standing stubborn and thick along the lowered lid — Kay Boyle > < sometimes the soil proved too stubborn for even this hardy people — American Guide Series: New Hampshire > < methods for dealing with stubborn problems — Theodore Draper > b. < methods … dermatologists use today in treating stubborn cases — Marjorie Vetter > < stubborn germ plasm's successive ways of surrounding itself with an ever more secure environment — Weston La Barre > < only a pathological condition could account for a depression so stubborn and dangerous — L.C.Douglas > 3. < in a lapidary inscription … shapes easy to cut in stubborn material would be his chief concern — F.W.Goudy > < gathering force … to break the stubborn, granite headlands — American Guide Series: Maine > 4. < a result of long and stubborn fighting — Times Literary Supplement > < made a stubborn living from repertory troupes for 8 years — Current Biography > 5. < the stubborn life of small religious bodies transplanted in America from Europe — W.L.Sperry > < the family … most stubborn of all social units — Edward Sapir > < a stubborn tradition of hope — A.M.Schlesinger b.1917 > < in the face of stubborn facts — Norman Kelman > Synonyms: see obstinate II. |
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