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    Continuing to do or try something even when it's difficult, when you keep failing, or when others tell you to stop — not giving up. It can describe a good quality in a person (determination), or something unwanted that keeps happening and won't go away, like "the persistence of a cough."

    堅持、毅力；（問題等）持續不斷

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組成per- (through) + sist (to stand, from Latin "sistere") + -ence (noun ending) — roughly "standing firm all the way through."

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  • persistpersistence is the noun form of persist — to keep going despite difficulty
  • insistshares the root 'sist' (to stand) with a different prefix

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。

persistencenoun/pəˈsɪst(ə)ns/

  • 1

    The property of being persistent.

    • You've got to admire her persistence. She's asked him out every day for a month even though she keeps turning him down.
    • The Thaumatrope was based on the persistence of vision. The disc of card was rotated so rapidly by means of threads attached to it that the eye saw both sides of the card simultaneously.
  • 2

    computercomputingengineeringOf data, the property of continuing to exist after the termination of the program.

    • Once written to a disk file, the data has persistence: it will still be there tomorrow when we run the next program.
  • 3

    climatologymeteorologynatural-sciencesContinuation of the previous day's weather (particularly temperature and precipitation statistics).

  • 4

    mathematicssciencesThe number of times an operation can be iteratively applied to a number before it reaches a permanently constant state.

    • The persistence of the number 39 under the operation of multiplying the digits of the number is three, because 3x9 = 27, 2x7 = 14, and 1x4 = 4, and no further iterations will change the number again.

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。