| 单词 | obstinate |
| 释义 | ob·sti·nate I. 1. 2. < obstinate fever > < these obstinate obstructions > Synonyms: < a man so obstinate as to resist the strongest arguments can never be brought to repentance, for he can never be persuaded of his errors — Leslie Stephen > < so stupid and so obstinate that it was impossible to get him to do or understand anything — Anthony Trollope > < not courageous, only quarrelsome; not determined, only obstinate; not masterful, only domineering — G.B.Shaw > dogged adds the idea of downright or tenacious persistence, usually connoting stolid determination or unwavering purpose < the immense amount of planning, of dogged study; the tireless, constant activity, the ability to get what he was after — Adria Langley > < the dull, dogged, unspectacular heroism which was needed for fighting filth and ignorance and disease — Louis Bromfield > < dogged hope and resolution for a peaceful union of nations — Laurence Stapleton > stubborn implies the unyielding adherence of obstinate and the stolid determination of dogged, carrying strongly the idea of fixedness of character, in a person, that resists attempts to change his purpose, course, or opinion or, in a thing, that makes it hard to work with or manipulate < the stubborn resistance which he met showed that the temper of the people was not easily broken — J.R.Green > < his stubborn refusal to accept the consequences of his own discoveries — J.B.Conant > < she was so stubborn that she wouldn't adjust her opinions — Sinclair Lewis > < man and beast joined against stubborn nature and her grudging soil — Ann F. Wolfe > pertinacious stresses a sticking to a chosen pursuit, purpose, and so on, with an unusual, often annoying, persistence < a pertinacious newsman > < a pertinacious mosquito > mulish suggests the unreasonable obstinacy of a mule < in refusing to accept ardent suitors who were urged upon her, she was obstinately mulish — Fashion Digest > < a mulish determination to make the worst of everything — T.S.Eliot > < there is a mulish quality about vellum that renders it difficult to cope with — Edith Diehl > stiff-necked, even more than obstinate or stubborn, stresses inflexibility, suggesting a haughtiness or arrogance that will not be directed < stiff-necked in his determination to wage a national campaign rather than a series of local campaigns — Newsweek > < the stiff-necked secretaries of Cromwell's army who had been glad to stand in pillories and suffer their ears to be cropped rather than put bread in the mouths of priests — V.W.Brooks > pigheaded and bullheaded, terms of severe reproach, suggest a particularly perverse or stupid kind of obstinacy, pigheaded stressing rather imperviousness to reason, bullheaded stressing rather headstrong determination < too … pigheaded to listen to reason — Dashiell Hammett > < a pigheaded refusal to budge from an untenable political position > < a bullheaded driving at a private goal no matter who else is hurt along the way > II. |
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