| 英语单词 | tenacious |
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| 英美音标 | 英 [tə'neɪʃəs] 美 [tə'neɪʃəs] |
| 中文释义 | adj.抓紧的;坚决的;(记忆力)强的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) He hold on to my arm with a tenacious grip. (2) The eagle seized its prey in a tenacious grip. (3) She is tenacious in defence of her rights. (4) He is tenacious of his opinions. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 他紧紧抓住我的手臂不放。 (2) 鹰将捕获物紧紧抓住。 (3) 她坚决维护自己的权利. (4) 他固执己见。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Use tenacious to mean "not easily letting go or giving up," like a clingy child who has a tenacious grip on his mother's hand. |
| vocabulary扩展 | A strong grip or an unyielding advocate might both be described as tenacious, a word whose synonyms include resolute, firm, and persistent. The word comes from the Latin root tenax, which means "holding fast." The basketball commentator Marv Albert, impressed by a defender's skill, once uttered the sound bite, "That's some tenacious D!" ("D" is short for "defense.") The musicians Jack Black and Kyle Gass borrowed the phrase for the name of their comedy-rock band, Tenacious D. |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]坚韧不拔的;坚毅的;坚持不懈的 If you are tenacious, you are very determined and do not give up easily.
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2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](观点、信念)根深蒂固的,深入人心的 If you describe something such as an idea or belief as tenacious, you mean that it has a strong influence on people and is difficult to change or remove.
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