| 词汇 | staying-power |
| 释义 | staying power noun[ U ] uk /ˈsteɪ.ɪŋ ˌpaʊər/ us /ˈsteɪ.ɪŋ ˌpaʊ.ɚ/ If someone has staying power, that person always manages to continue doing what they have to do until it is finished.持久力，耐力 Synonym stamina Strength of will and determination aggressiveness bitter bloody-mindedness bull bull something through character-building fibre insusceptible intransigence inveteracy mettle militancy resolution resolve sharp sharp elbowsidiom sharpen sharpen (something) up sharpen your elbowsidiom single-mindedness staying power | Business Englishstaying power noun[ U ] ukus the ability to continue existing or trying to do something, even when this is difficult: She was remarkable for her staying power, energy, and determination. Examples of staying powerstaying power How the different members fitted together (or clashed) determined their stayingpower. American parties have shown a remarkable though elusive stayingpower. There are signs that the new date has stayingpower. From whence its appeal and its stayingpower? Contrastive rhetoric - an analytical framework for the study of second language writing - has had incredible stayingpower. In retrospect, such optimism was premature and severely underestimated the president's political skills and stayingpower. There has been considerable discussion about the stayingpower of philanthropy and the motives behind funeral doles in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Some regimes and institutions have more stayingpower than others. But in fact the price ended up being a minor factor in testing the stayingpower of the talking machine's definition as a musical instrument. The impact of these developments is still too recent to permit any very firm predictions about which, if any, of these alternatives may prove to have stayingpower. But some will have stayingpower. And because weaving families often needed cash quickly to cover living expenses and yarn purchases, they rarely had the stayingpower needed to negotiate favourable terms in the market. It perhaps goes without saying, then, that intensifiers by their very nature cannot have staying power since their impact is only as good as their novelty. We are changing the balance within an enlarged programme to provide harder hitting, better trained forces with more stayingpower. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Some of them are pretty old specimens which have shown a great stayingpower in the race. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of staying power 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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