recalcitrant
recalcitrant 英 [rɪˈkælsɪtrənt] 美 [rɪˈkælsɪtrənt]
adj. 反抗的；反对的；顽强的 n. 顽抗者；不服从的人
名词复数:recalcitrants
- If someone is so pig-headed that he won't budge on an issue, call him recalcitrant. Not that it will make a difference...
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- adj. 反抗的；反对的；顽强的
- n. 顽抗者；不服从的人
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1. Even then it took a sympathetic bankruptcy judge to convince a group of recalcitrant lenders that it was in their best interest to drop their opposition.
尽管当时表现出同情的破产判断确信一部分负隅顽抗的贷方，这样对贷方有利，所以放弃了他们的反对。
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2. And Beijing may be where the market is headed. Chinese energy officials made fast friends among the world’s most recalcitrant regimes because they had the capital and didn’t ask the questions.
北京已经在领导着市场，中国的能源官员能够与世界上大多数流氓政权国家很快交上朋友，因为他们有雄厚的资本实力而且不挑毛病。
- recalcitrant (adj.) 1823, from French récalcitrant, literally "kicking back" (17c.-18c.), past participle of recalcitrare "to kick back; be inaccessible," from re- "back" (see re-) + Latin calcitrare "to kick," from calx (genitive calcis) "heel" (see calcaneus). Used from 1797 as a French word in English.
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