an act of demanding or saying something clearly and refusing to accept any opposition or excuses 坚决要求;坚持;固执 - at somebody's insistence
At her insistence, the matter was dropped. 在她的坚持下,这件事被搁置了。 - insistence on/upon (doing) something
their insistence on strict standards of behaviour 他们对严格行为规范的坚决主张 - insistence that…
No one was convinced by his insistence that he was not to blame. 没有人被他坚持认为不应该责备他。
Extra ExamplesThe union has dropped its earlier insistence that workers should receive bonus payments. 工会先前坚持工人应得到奖金,但现在已不再坚持了。 an insistence upon the highest standards of grammatical correctness 对语法准确性最高标准的坚持 insistence by the government that 25 per cent of all household waste be recycled 政府坚持回收25%的家庭垃圾 their repeated insistence that the trial be held in a US court 他们再三坚持要由一家美国法院来审理
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