adamant
adamant 英 [ˈædəmənt] 美 [ˈædəmənt, -ˌmænt]
adj. 坚决的；坚定不移的 n. 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. 坚决的；坚定不移的
- n. 坚石
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1. Eva was adamant that she would not come.
伊娃坚决不来。
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2. His family were adamantly opposed to the marriage.
他的家人坚决反对这门亲事。
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3. She became as rigid as adamant .
她变得如顽石般的固执。
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4. He was adamant in his determination to punish the corrupt officials.
他下了决心,坚决惩治那些贪官污吏。
- 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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