每日单词：adamant

adamant

英 ['ædəmənt] 美 ['ædəmənt]

adj.坚定不移的；固执的 n.坚硬无比之物；硬石

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◉Usage Examples

(1) She was quite adamant that she would not come.

(2) She was adamant in refusing to comply with his wishes.

(3) She became as rigid as adamant.

(1) 她坚决不来。

(2) 她固执地拒绝按他的意愿办。

(3) 她变得如顽石般的固执。

◉Usage notes

If you stubbornly refuse to change your mind about something, you are adamant about it.

This word's story begins in ancient Greece, where philosophers spoke about a legendary unbreakable stone or metal they called adamas (literally, 'invincible'). In English, people began to use the word to refer to something that cannot be altered, and then in the twentieth century — after adamant had been in English for about a thousand years — it came to be used as an adjective to mean 'unyielding as stone.' If you're adamant about something, no amount of persuasion is going to convince you otherwise.

◉Collins

1. [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]坚决的；坚定不移的 If someone is adamant about something, they are determined not to change their mind about it. [usu v-link ADJ]

① The prime minister is adamant that he will not resign...

首相坚决不辞职。

② Sue was adamant about that job in Australia.

对澳大利亚的那份工作，休的态度很坚决。

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She was adamantly opposed to her husband travelling to Brussels.

她坚决反对丈夫前往布鲁塞尔。