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单词 insist
释义
insist
verb[I]
uk
/ɪnˈsɪst/us
/ɪnˈsɪst/
B1
to sayfirmlyordemandforcefully,especiallywhenothersdisagreewith oropposewhat you say:
坚持说，强调；坚决要求
[+ (that)]Greg still insists(that)he did nothingwrong.格雷格仍坚称自己没有做错任何事。
Please go first - I insist!请先走——我坚持这样！
She insistedonseeingherlawyer.她坚持要见她的律师。
More examples
  • She's 85 now, but she will insist on doing all her ownhousework.
  • The men at City Hall insist thatbigspendingcutsare just notpractical.
  • Thepoliceinsist that they are notrelaxingtheircampaignagainstdrugs.
  • They insisted that allswearwords bedeletedfrom thearticle.
  • She insisted ontellingme everysingledetailof what they did to her inhospital.
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Phrasal verb

insist ondoing something
(Definition ofinsistfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

insist| American Dictionary

insist
verb
us
/ɪnˈsɪst/
tostateordemandforcefully,esp.despiteopposition:
[I]She insisted onseeingherlawyer.
[+ (that) clause]Greg still insists (that) he did nothingwrong.

insistent

adjectiveus
/ɪnˈsɪs·tənt/
Iheardasoft, insistentrappingat thedoor.

insistently

adverbus
/ɪnˈsɪs·tənt·li/
She was insistentlycheerful.
(Definition ofinsistfrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinsist

insist
On day 3, he insisted on going to a hot spring instead of receiving cancer treatment.
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Yet, from the standpoint that insists that 'values', 'opinions' and 'tastes' influence decisions identically, such differences are invisible.
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It does not shun predictions, but insists that predictions be based on models that capture underlying processes.
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Despite their waning interest in genuine political reform, however, donors have continued toinsiston nominally democratic systems.
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The immigrants insisted that others should join them at their earliest opportunity.
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Let usinsistthat special loci, which are the fixed-point sets of the action of the modular group are simultaneously algebraic, arithmetic and totally geodesic.
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Jacksonians insisted that, like the common schools and the press, political parties were critical agencies of political learning.
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Should theyinsistthat workers have an "affirmative" right to better work conditions, a right that superseded their employers' freedom to contract?
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Ministers in conflict with their parishioners were quick toinsiston the obligations of unconditional obedience.
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By contrast, all the protagonists of diphtheria antitoxin serum insisted that it was a therapeutic treatment.
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Finally, the author insists that there should be a common syntactic analysis of these so-called operators, though it is rather unclear why.
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They mightinsist, that is, that there are only negative duties and permissions, so that all acts of aid are supererogator y, not obligatory.
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Both, however,insistthat an understanding of the modern occult will change how we understand modernity.
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For a similar reason we alsoinsistthat there must be at least one lambda.
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Firstly, they insisted that they could like music without relating to it or identifying with it, and that songs couldn't teach them anything.
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