an act of demanding or saying something clearly and refusing to accept any opposition or excuses 堅決要求;堅持;固執 - at somebody's insistence
At her insistence, the matter was dropped. 在她的堅持下,這件事被擱置了。 - insistence on/upon (doing) something
their insistence on strict standards of behaviour 他們對嚴格行爲規範的堅決主張 - insistence that…
No one was convinced by his insistence that he was not to blame. 沒有人被他堅持認爲不應該責備他。
Extra ExamplesThe union has dropped its earlier insistence that workers should receive bonus payments. 工會先前堅持工人應得到獎金,但現在已不再堅持了。 an insistence upon the highest standards of grammatical correctness 對語法準確性最高標準的堅持 insistence by the government that 25 per cent of all household waste be recycled 政府堅持回收25%的家庭垃圾 their repeated insistence that the trial be held in a US court 他們再三堅持要由一家美國法院來審理
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dogged
- dogmatic
- stubborn
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- abandon
- drop
- at somebody’s insistence
- on somebody’s insistence
- insistence by
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- at somebody's insistence