obstinate

英语

其他形式

• obstinant (官方不推荐)

词源

源自中古英语 obstinate、obstinat，源自拉丁语 obstinātus，obstinō (“下定决心”)的过去分词，源自ob (“前”) + *stinare，源自stare (“站”)。ostinato的同源对似词。

发音

• (英国) 国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈɒb.stɪ.nət/, /ˈɒb.stɪ.nɪt/
• (美国) 英语发音：äb'stənət、国际音标^(帮助)：/ˈɑb.stə.nət/, /ˈɑb.stə.nɪt/

• （美国）音频

  （文档）

• 断字（美国）：ob‧sti‧nate

形容词

obstinate (比较级 more obstinate，最高级 most obstinate)

1. 坚持不懈的，坚定不移的
   • 1686, Montaigne, 译者 Charles Cotton, That men are justly punished for being obstinate in the defence of a fort that is not in reason to be defended:

     From this consideration it is that we have derived the custom, in times of war, to punish […] those who are obstinate to defend a place that by the rules of war is not tenable […]

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   • 1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, 章号 21, 出自 Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero, London: Bradbury and Evans, […], 出版于 1848, →OCLC:

     […] the junior Osborne was quite as obstinate as the senior: when he wanted a thing, quite as firm in his resolution to get it; and quite as violent when angered, as his father in his most stern moments

     （请为本引文添加中文翻译）

2. (指不动的事物) 牢固的，难以移动的，顽固的；棘手的
   • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part IV, Chapter XXIX,

     Now it happened that Kasturbai […] had again begun getting haemorrhage, and the malady seemed to be obstinate.

3. (指面部) 表情坚定的
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近义词

• (坚持不懈)： bloody-minded、persistent、stubborn、pertinacious，见Thesaurus:obstinate
• (稳固)： persistent、unrelenting、inexorable

衍生词汇

• obstinacy
• obstinately
• obstinateness

相关词汇

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延伸阅读

• “obstinate”, Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, OCLC 800618302
• “obstinate”, The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, OCLC 867766587
• OneLook 在线词典 上有关 obstinate 的释义

异序词

• obestatin, obtainest

拉丁语

词源 1

发音

• (古典) 国际音标^(帮助)：/op.stiˈnaː.teː/, [ɔp.st̪ɪˈnaː.t̪eː]
• (教会) 国际音标^(帮助)：/op.stiˈna.te/, [ɔp.st̪iˈnaː.t̪ɛ]

副词

obstinātē (比较级 obstinātius，最高级 obstinātissimē)

1. 坚持不懈地

词源 2

发音

• (古典) 国际音标^(帮助)：/op.stiˈnaː.te/, [ɔp.st̪ɪˈnaː.t̪ɛ]
• (教会) 国际音标^(帮助)：/op.stiˈna.te/, [ɔp.st̪iˈnaː.t̪ɛ]

分词

obstināte

1. obstinātus 的呼格阳性单数

参考资料

• obstinate in Charlton T. Lewis & Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1879
• “obstinate”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• obstinate在Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français (拉丁语-法语详解词典), Hachette中的内容

西班牙语

动词

obstinate

1. obstinar 的第二人称单数voseo命令式与 te 的合词