obstinate

英语

其他形式

• obstinant (官方不推荐)

词源

源自中古英語 obstinate、obstinat，源自拉丁語 obstinātus，obstinō (“下定决心”)的过去分词，源自ob (“前”) + *stinare，源自stare (“站”)。ostinato 的同源對似詞。

发音

• (英國) 國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɒb.stɪ.nət/, /ˈɒb.stɪ.nɪt/
• (美國) 英語發音：äb'stənət、國際音標^(幫助): /ˈɑb.stə.nət/, /ˈɑb.stə.nɪt/

• （美国）音频：

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• 断字（美国）：ob‧sti‧nate

形容词

obstinate (比較級 more obstinate，最高級 most obstinate)

1. 坚持不懈的，坚定不移的
   • 1686, Montaigne, translated by 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 […]

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

   • 1847 January – 1848 July，William Makepeace Thackeray，第21章，收錄於Vanity Fair. A Novel without a Hero，London：Bradbury and Evans, […]，1848 出版，→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

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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
   • 1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019:

     He had the same pile of curly hair, but he was clean-shaven with a heavy, obstinate jowl.

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

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

來自原始印歐語詞根*steh₂-的英語詞 (9个页面)

延伸阅读

• “obstinate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “obstinate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• 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

• (古典拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): [ɔp.stɪˈnaː.teː]
• (教會拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): [ob.st̪iˈnäː.t̪e]

副词

obstinātē (比較級 obstinātius，最高級 obstinātissimē)

1. 坚持不懈地

词源 2

发音

• (古典拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): [ɔp.stɪˈnaː.tɛ]
• (教會拉丁語) 國際音標^(幫助): [ob.st̪iˈnäː.t̪e]

分词

obstināte

1. obstinātus 的呼格陽性單數

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 (拉丁語-法語詳解詞典)，Hachette中的內容

西班牙语

动词

obstinate

1. obstinar 的第二人稱單數voseo命令式與 te 的合詞