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小词详解 | adamant
adamant 英 [ˈædəmənt] 美 [ˈædəmənt]
But they were equally adamant that free trade benefited countries as a whole.
但他们同样也坚定地认为,整体而言,自由贸易能使各国获益。
——《经济学人》But this time, business leaders are adamant that they won't change course.
但这一次,商界领袖坚决不会改变路线。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 拒绝被说服或改变主意的
玛丽原本坚决不来。但这一消息间接影响了她的决定。
Mary was adamant that she would not come. But this news implicated her decision.
Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent.
(张伯伦)决定不做决定,决心动摇不定,坚定地随波逐流,稳稳地随风摇曳,强大到一无所成。
obdurate: stubbornly refusing to change one's opinion or course of action inflexible: unwilling to change or compromise inexorable: (of a person) impossible to persuade by request or entreaty