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Describes someone who keeps saying or asking for something firmly, again and again, and won't easily accept "no". It can also describe a feeling or sound that keeps repeating and demands attention, like "an insistent knocking on the door".
堅持的、堅決要求的
組成insist (to firmly and repeatedly say something must happen) + -ent (adjective ending). Insist comes from Latin in- (upon) + sistere (to stand).
同家族的字
- insistinsistent describes someone who insists — keeps firmly demanding something
- persistentshares the Latin root sistere, to stand, and a similar idea of firmly continuing
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
insistentadj/ɪnˈsɪstənt/
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obsoleteStanding or resting on something.
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Urgent in dwelling upon anything; persistent in urging or maintaining.
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Extorting attention or notice; coercively staring or prominent; vivid; intense.
- Hadadas roost in numbers among the trees in the leafier parts of Nairobi and their eponymous call is one of the more insistent elements of the dawn chorus in that part of the world, though they may be heard at any time of the day.
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biologynatural-sciencesornithologyStanding on end: specifically said of the hind toe of a bird when its base is inserted so high on the shank that only its tip touches the ground: correlated with incumbent.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。