| 词汇 | persevere |
| 释义 | persevere verb[ I ] mainly approvinguk /ˌpɜː.sɪˈvɪər/ us /ˌpɝː.səˈvɪr/ to continue making an effort to do or achieve something, even when this is difficult or takes a long time: 锲而不舍，坚持不懈 If you persevere long enough and work hard enough, you’ll eventually succeed. I did not persevere with learning to play the violin. We will persevere in this struggle for peace, no matter how long it takes. The prime minister is aware of the risks of persevering with an unpopular policy. He urged them to persevere in keeping the promises they had made. to continue to exist despite a difficult or changing situation: Somehow, in the midst of despair, friendships and laughter persevered. Although modernization has reached the countryside, some traditions persevere. The town has persevered through epidemics, wars, and two great fires. Their encouragement and faith in my abilities motivated me to persevere. Not all of the proposals are worth persevering with. The company persevered in retraining the workforce at the expense of short-term profit. It looks as if the policy will be a success, providing that the government perseveres and does not give in to its critics. The education director is persevering in his attempt to obtain additional funding for the school. Despite receiving little support, the women are persevering with their crusade to fight crime. Trying and making an effort A game all out assault attempt attempted commitment give something your best shotidiom go after someone go all outidiom go down swinging/fightingidiom go for someone nose shoot for the moonidiom shoot the worksidiom smarten (someone/something) up smarten up your actidiom spare square the circleidiom stretch struggle You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Continue & last Comparepersist Related wordsperseverance perseverant persevering persevere | American Dictionarypersevere verb[ I ] us/ˌpɜr·səˈvɪər/ to try to do or continue doing something in a determined way, despite difficulties: If I had persevered, I probably would have gotten the job. perseverancenoun[ U ]us/ˌpɜr·səˈvɪər·əns/ Perseverance accounts for much of their success. Examples of perseverepersevere She perseveres in her role, but the power base by which she rose and flourished has been eroded. Some children may have ruminated on the first test item that they could not label, perhaps persevering in an attempt to retrieve its name. The "sunk cost fallacy" is thought to be the product of a "waste not" or "persevere" rule. She has indeed been able to persevere through all the obstacles which she had to face throughout her career. The planetary dynamo ceased and extremely dry and cold conditions persevered on the surface. If they advocate persevering with religion, they advocate reconceptualizing it in different ways that do not depend on what they regard as such indefensible presuppositions. But as he had just become engaged to be married and money was short, he persevered. They incited the public to persevere in the boycott. It encourages them to persevere with life, kindling hopes that a brighter future is around the corner. However, for the reader who perseveres or who has previous acquaintance with advanced formal logic, there is clearly a great deal of valuable material here. Nevertheless, this edition does offer some minor benefits to those willing to persevere. Furthermore, these themes tended to persevere as recognisable self-contained packages, eminently suitable to a self-conscious and manipulative deployment within a rhetorically conceived iconographic scheme. These problems should not prevent us from persevering, but it is useful to recognise that they are still there and need attention. But it is worth persevering because this is one of the first accounts of an island that was then terra incognita. He is less able to make adjustments and tends to persevere with rules that no longer apply. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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