obstinate

英語

其他形式

• obstinant (官方不推薦)

詞源

源自中古英語 obstinate、obstinat，源自拉丁語 obstinātus，obstinō (「下定決心」)的過去分詞，源自ob (「前」) + *stinare，源自stare (「站」)。ostinato的同源對似詞。

發音

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

• （美國）音頻

  （文檔）

• 斷字（美國）：ob‧sti‧nate

形容詞

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

1. 堅持不懈的，堅定不移的
   • 1686, Montaigne, 譯者 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 […]

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

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

     （請為本引文添加中文翻譯）

2. (指不動的事物) 牢固的，難以移動的，頑固的；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) 表情堅定的
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近義詞

• (堅持不懈)： bloody-minded、persistent、stubborn、pertinacious，見Thesaurus:obstinate
• (穩固)： persistent、unrelenting、inexorable

衍生詞彙

• obstinacy
• obstinately
• obstinateness

相關詞彙

找不到分類來自原始印歐語詞根*ine-的英語詞

延伸閱讀

• 「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 在線詞典 上有關 obstinate 的釋義

異序詞

• obestatin, obtainest

拉丁語

詞源 1

發音

• (古典) IPA^(幫助)：/op.stiˈnaː.teː/, [ɔp.st̪ɪˈnaː.t̪eː]
• (教會) IPA^(幫助)：/op.stiˈna.te/, [ɔp.st̪iˈnaː.t̪ɛ]

副詞

obstinātē (比較級 obstinātius，最高級 obstinātissimē)

1. 堅持不懈地

詞源 2

發音

• (古典) IPA^(幫助)：/op.stiˈnaː.te/, [ɔp.st̪ɪˈnaː.t̪ɛ]
• (教會) IPA^(幫助)：/op.stiˈna.te/, [ɔp.st̪iˈnaː.t̪ɛ]

分詞

obstināte

1. obstinātus 的呼格陽性單數

參考資料

• 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

西班牙語

動詞

obstinate

1. obstinar 的第二人稱單數voseo命令式與 te 的合詞