adamant
adamant 英 [ˈædəmənt] 美 [ˈædəmənt, -ˌmænt]
adj. 固执的，坚强的；坚定不移的；坚硬无比的 n. 坚硬的东西；坚石
名词复数:adamants
- If you stubbornly refuse to change your mind about something, you are adamant about it.
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- adj. 固执的，坚强的；坚定不移的；坚硬无比的
- n. 坚硬的东西；坚石
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1. The view was unanimous and adamant: we must finish the job.
大家的观点是一致和坚定的：我们必须完成任务。
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2. But Mr.Boehner is adamant: our mortgage is part of the cost of our meal, and to say otherwise is just a budget gimmick.
但是，博纳先生却坚定不移说：住房抵押贷款就是饭费的一部分，不这么看就是在预算问题上耍滑头。
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3. But if you're adamant on bucking the trend, there's plenty of storage space back there for your Brooklyn Flea finds and empty bottles of Colt 54.
如果你坚定不移地要逆流而上的话，它的后备箱有足够空间装你的布鲁克林跳蚤市场的收获及柯尔特54的空瓶子。
- adamant (adj.) late 14c., "hard, unbreakable," from adamant (n.). Figurative sense of "unshakeable" first recorded 1670s. Related: Adamantly; adamance.
- adamant (n.) Old English aðamans "a very hard stone;" the modern word is a mid-14c. borrowing of Old French adamant "diamond; magnet" or directly from Latin adamantem (nominative adamas) "adamant, hardest iron, steel," also used figuratively, of character, from Greek adamas (genitive adamantos), name of a hypothetical hardest material, noun use of an adjective meaning "unbreakable, inflexible," which was metaphoric of anything unalterable (such as Hades), a word of uncertain origin.
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