adamant

英式音标：[ˈædəmənt]

美式音标：[ˈædəmənt, -ˌmænt]

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概况：

adj. 固执的，坚强的；坚定不移的；坚硬无比的

n. 坚硬的东西；坚石

词义：

adj.

坚硬无比的；牢不可破的；坚定不移的；坚决的

n.

坚硬的物质；硬石；牢不可破；

英英释义

adamant[ 'ædəmənt ]

n.very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

同义词：diamond

adj.impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

"he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind"

同义词：adamantineinexorableintransigent

用法：

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

She was quite adamant that she would not come.
她坚决不来。

On this point I am adamant.
在这一点上我是坚定不移的。

She was adamant in refusing to comply with his wishes.
她固执地拒绝按他的意愿办。

用作名词(n.)

She became as rigid as adamant.
她变得如顽石般的固执。

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同义词：tough,strong,steel,persistent,fixed

同根词：adamantly,adamantine,adamant

英语词源：

adamant

adamant: [14] In Greek, adamas meant ‘unbreakable, invincible’. It was formed from the verb daman ‘subdue, break down’ (which came from the same source as English tame) plus the negative prefix a-. It developed a noun usage as a ‘hard substance’, specifically ‘diamond’ or ‘very hard metal’, and this passed into Latin as adamāns, or, in its stem form, adamant-. Hence Old French adamaunt, and eventually English adamant.=> diamond, tame

adamant (adj.)

late 14c., "hard, unbreakable," from adamant (n.). Figurative sense of "unshakeable" first recorded 1670s. Related: Adamantly; adamance.

adamant (n.)

mid-14c., from Old French adamant and directly from Latin adamantem (nominative adamas) "adamant, hardest iron, steel," also figuratively, of character, from Greek adamas (genitive adamantos) "unbreakable, inflexible" metaphoric of anything unalterable, also the name of a hypothetical hardest material, perhaps literally "invincible," from a- "not" + daman "to conquer, to tame" (see tame (adj.)), or else a word of foreign origin altered to conform to Greek. Applied in antiquity to a metal resembling gold (Plato), white sapphire, magnet (by Ovid, perhaps via confusion with Latin adamare "to love passionately"), steel, emery stone, and especially diamond (see diamond). "The name has thus always been of indefinite and fluctuating sense" [Century Dictionary]. The word was in Old English as aðamans "a very hard stone."

造句：

1. be adamant to temptation

不为诱惑所动

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. adamant plaster

速凝石膏粉刷

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考[网络]

3. He be adamant to temptation .

他不为诱惑所动。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 翻译参考

4. His wife looked adamant.

看看媳妇，样子比说话还硬劲。

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5. He was adamant in his refusal.

他拒绝之意极坚定。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. I am adamant about it.

我坚持这一点。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

7. But Scarlett was adamant.

可是思嘉很强硬。

-- 来源 -- 飘（部分） - piao29

8. She became as rigid as adamant.

她变得如顽石般的固执。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

9. Made of or resembling adamant.

硬石制的由硬石制成的或与硬石相似的

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考

10. On this point I am adamant.

在这一点上我是坚定不移的。

-- 来源 -- 轻轻松松背单词-蒋刚