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词汇 insistence
释义 insistence
noun[ U ]
uk /ɪnˈsɪs.təns/ us /ɪnˈsɪs.təns/(alsoinsistency)
an occasion when you demand something and refuse to accept opposition, or when you say firmly that something is true: 坚决要求;坚持主张;坚持
insistence onInsistence on better working conditions by the union has resulted in fewer employee absences.工会坚决要求改善工作条件使得员工缺勤的现象有所减少。
at someone's insistenceAt her father's insistence, Amelia's been moved into a new class.基于阿梅莉亚父亲的坚决要求,她被转到了一个新班。
[ + that ]Her insistence that she should have the best room annoyed everyone.她坚持要最好的房间,这使大家都很恼火。
He admits that he works with such insistency that he often irritates even his own colleagues.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Stressing & emphasizing
accentuate
accentuation
all day longidiom
believe
deadass
drive your message/point homeidiom
drive/hammer something homeidiom
highlight
impress something on/upon someone
insistency
insistently
intensely
like blazesidiom
percent
ram
sooth
stress
vaunt
work/laugh/freeze, etc. your arse offidiom
work/laugh/freeze, etc. your ass offidiom

insistence | American Dictionary


insistence
noun[ U ]
us/ɪnˈsɪs·təns/
the act of stating or demanding something forcefully:
At his insistence, I continued living with my mother.
Her insistence that he bring her took him by surprise.

Examples of insistence


insistence
Insistence on an entirely local quality to indigenous movements therefore suggests that indigenous peoples are being held to a different standard.
Representations of feminine desire abound in seventeenth-century music and then disappear with the eighteenth-century insistence on patriarchal values.
Nevertheless, although textual insistence that the installation's time is independent of the 'oblivion' beyond becomes clear, the role of the whisper cannot be purely linguistic.
He was also acutely aware that too strong an insistence on virtue might threaten happiness.
The contradictions between the official adult age and a woman's resultant rights could hardly make sense with the judicial insistence upon her under-age status.
Many of the details of dowry transactions are very similar, including the insistence on the wife's continued ownership, whatever the management arrangements may be.
The 'insistence on keeping in touch' begins with the relationship we maintained with knowledge.
In part, this seems due to the editors' insistence on short essays.
That insistence stems from the more fundamental aim of the revisionists to resist the anachronising teleology that often accompanies ' grand theory ' explanations of the past.
Indeed, the insistence on stable truth and unifying principles accentuates formal considerations in aesthetics.
This methodological focus on individual differences is a form of particularism - an insistence on the priority of particulars over abstractions.
Two, her insistence and rendering the proof of her marriage, and its acceptance by the court.
The liberal insistence on the equality of individuals finds its flipside in laws and policies that are blind to difference.
But their insistence on developing their own critique of international affairs was a challenge to the norm.
As for taxation, the repetition and insistence by petitioners on the importance of the remission of dues to the government is certainly striking.
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