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 persistent [pә'sistәnt]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 固执的, 坚持的, 持续的, 作用持久的

[法] 坚持的, 固执的, 持续的




    persistent
    [ adj ]
    1. retained; not shed

    2. <adj.all>
      persistent leaves remain attached past maturity
      the persistent gills of fishes
    3. never-ceasing

    4. <adj.all>
      the relentless beat of the drums
    5. continually recurring to the mind

    6. <adj.all>
      haunting memories
      the cathedral organ and the distant voices have a haunting beauty
    7. stubbornly unyielding

    8. <adj.all>
      dogged persistence
      dour determination
      the most vocal and pertinacious of all the critics
      a mind not gifted to discover truth but tenacious to hold it
      men tenacious of opinion


    Persistent \Per*sist"ent\, a. [L. persistens, -entis, p. pr. of
    persistere. See {Persist}.]
    1. Inclined to persist; having staying qualities; tenacious
    of position or purpose.

    2. (Biol.) Remaining beyond the period when parts of the same
    kind sometimes fall off or are absorbed; permanent; as,
    persistent teeth or gills; a persistent calyx; -- opposed
    to {deciduous}, and {caducous}.

    1. It has run a persistent budget deficit for the past decade, which last year reached about 9 per cent of GDP, double that of the US.
    2. But the 28-year-old Metzger, an assistant coach at Villanova University here when he's not collecting pins, is nothing if not persistent.
    3. The racial difference in cervical cancer rates is "substantial and persistent," the Atlanta-based CDC said.
    4. One of the lab industry's most persistent critics, Rep. Ron Wyden (D., Ore.) blamed much of the problem on the Reagan administration.
    5. "Technical weakness has been persistent over the spring and summer in the volume and advance-decline statistics," Ms. Callies said.
    6. So the view here is that the Sandinistas, despite persistent economic problems, are more entrenched than ever.
    7. The fickle weather at the Florida launch site has been a persistent problem, forcing numerous delays and postponements of previous shuttle launches.
    8. Some analysts argue that a higher import bill could benefit Japan by trimming its persistent trade surpluses and cooling industrial expansion.
    9. Until 1980, the building was regularly painted every five years. Because of persistent paint failure, the White House and National Park Service asked the National Bureau of Standards in 1976 to make a study and recommend corrective action.
    10. Today, Mana Saeed Otaiba, oil minister of the United Arab Emirates, a persistent overproducer in the cartel, said he would like to see OPEC boost its daily production to between 20 million and 21 million barrels from the current 18.5 million barrels.
    11. Analysts said that helped to put a damper on buying interest in the stock market, along with persistent worries about the economic outlook.
    12. But French Finance Minister Pierre Beregovoy said Tuesday, "The time has come to make (the SDR) a more widely used reserve currency." Lawson said there has been a persistent effort to substitute the dollar for the IMF currency.
    13. Moody's is concerned about persistent weakness of the commercial and military markets for the company's jet engines and engine spares. Later, the market learned that US investment house Lehman Brothers had turned buyer of Boeing.
    14. "Many of these programs suffer from high default rates, minimal reserves, lax management and persistent losses," he said.
    15. Other symptoms include vomiting, painful pressure and persistent noise in the ear, along with possible hearing loss.
    16. Eisenhower and Taft knew that ensuring harmony between America's ambitions and its resources is a moral imperative because states that tolerate a persistent imbalance between the ends and means of policy run the risk of national ruin.
    17. There have been persistent rumours about his health, although in this week's interview he appeared relaxed and fit. The austerity programme is extracting a heavy social cost of which symptoms are not hard to find.
    18. In the event, persistent mistrust of Labour did the trick for the Tories.
    19. For instance, Rep. William Lehman, a Florida Democrat, was "extremely persistent with his request to meet with the secretary," according to the notes of Mr. Pierce's assistant.
    20. Crude-oil futures fell to a five-month low amid persistent pessimism on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
    21. But it hasn't dispelled persistent takeover rumors.
    22. In 1985, for example, a State Commission on Euthanasia recommended that it should be lawful to kill patients in a persistent coma even though they had never requested it.
    23. Mr. Hammer, 52, who was recruited in 1985 from a top job at Chase Manhattan Corp. to clean up the mess at Meritor, has struggled for three years to get a grip on its persistent problems.
    24. Steel exports to communist countries continued a persistent, sharp fall.
    25. 'We had pencilled in a target of 8 3/4 per cent, which was already way below the consensus in the market.' There may be lessons to draw from the persistent bull market in US bonds, which has also defied analysts' expectations.
    26. Mr. Vogelstein also denied persistent rumors that Mattel may be sold to another company.
    27. But Judge Edward J. Greenfield disagreed, finding a persistent pattern of fraud. Apart from failing to secure a bond, the judge said, the club owner continued to sign up members long after he was aware that the club faced imminent collapse.
    28. Justice Antonin Scalia noted that judicial efforts to define pattern had "produced the widest and most persistent circuit split on an issue of federal law in recent memory."
    29. Since the free-spending Apollo days, the agency has had persistent problems getting money from Congress, some members of which now question the expense of a space station _ NASA's next goal which is at least eight years away.
    30. Among them: persistent leaks of plutonium from contaminated oil drums and large fires in 1957 and 1969.
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