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单词 insistence
释义
insistence
noun[U]
uk
/ɪnˈsɪs.təns/us
/ɪnˈsɪs.təns/
anoccasionwhen youdemandsomething andrefusetoacceptopposition, or when you sayfirmlythat something istrue:
坚决要求；坚持主张；坚持
Insistenceonbetterworkingconditionsby theunionhasresultedin feweremployeeabsences.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。
Atherfather'sinsistence, Amelia's beenmovedinto a newclass.基于阿梅莉亚父亲的坚决要求，她被转到了一个新班。
[+ that]Her insistencethatshe should have thebestroomannoyedeveryone.她坚持要最好的房间，这使大家都很恼火。
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(Definition ofinsistencefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

insistence| American Dictionary

insistence
noun[U]
us
/ɪnˈsɪs·təns/
theactofstatingordemandingsomethingforcefully:
At his insistence, Icontinuedlivingwith mymother.
Her insistence that hebringher took him bysurprise.
(Definition ofinsistencefrom theCambridge Academic Content Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofinsistence

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