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adamant ['ædəmənt]

n. 坚硬的东西

a. 非常坚硬的, 坚强的, 固执的

[医] 釉质

On this point I am adamant.
在这一点上我是坚定不移的。
She was quite adamant that she would not come.
她坚决不来。
I've tried to persuade him to change his mind but he's adamant.
我竭力劝他改变主意，但他毫不动摇。

adamant

[ noun ]

very hard native crystalline carbon valued as a gem

<noun.substance>

[ adj ]

impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, reason

<adj.all>

he is adamant in his refusal to change his mind

Cynthia was inexorable; she would have none of him

an intransigent conservative opposed to every liberal tendency

Adamant \Ad"a*mant\ ([a^]d"[.a]*m[a^]nt), n. [OE. adamaunt,
adamant, diamond, magnet, OF. adamant, L. adamas, adamantis,
the hardest metal, fr. Gr. 'ada`mas, -antos; 'a priv. +
dama^,n to tame, subdue. In OE., from confusion with L.
adamare to love, be attached to, the word meant also magnet,
as in OF. and LL. See {Diamond}, {Tame}.]
1. A stone imagined by some to be of impenetrable hardness; a
name given to the diamond and other substances of extreme
hardness; but in modern mineralogy it has no technical
signification. It is now a rhetorical or poetical name for
the embodiment of impenetrable hardness.

Opposed the rocky orb
Of tenfold adamant, his ample shield. --Milton.

2. Lodestone; magnet. [Obs.] ``A great adamant of
acquaintance.'' --Bacon.

As true to thee as steel to adamant. --Greene.

It's not the same as someone's back garden,' says Mr David Beskine, the Ramblers' campaigner on rights of way. The association is adamant it is not disputing ownership.
Once there is an upturn in the weak US market we expect a rapid improvement in profitability', he says. He is equally adamant that the purchase of Deutsche Versicherungs is justifiable over the long term.
Kathie Huff, a respondent in the Journal survey from Spokane, Wash., says her husband is adamant about eating only Hunt's ketchup.
He is adamant that he is not in financial difficulties, and had no forewarning of the bank's move. He has retained the support of Tiphook's own bankers and Mr Ian Clubb, its newly-appointed chairman.
Oil futures prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange fell after Democratic lawmakers remained adamant that President Bush must get the support of Congress before attacking Iraq or seeking to liberate Kuwait.
Critics who saw both at film festivals generally preferred the Friedman version, but Mr. Daly has remained adamant that his is the only acceptable one, and it will shortly be test-marketed in a few small cities.
Torchmark's adamant interest in acquiring American General "made a lot of other people aware that we were vulnerable," Hook said.
In addition, the U.S. remains adamant that consumers should have a voice on how the quotas are allocated, a province producers have zealously defended as their own.
Still, the newsstands have adamant defenders.
A similar measure died on the Senate floor in late 1986 after a filibuster led by Ernest B. Hollings, D-S.C., an adamant foe of such legislation.
But Brussels is adamant that not only will it not alter this year's quotas, but that the quotas will stand, subject to negotiations with China.
During the decades of the cold war, the National Council of Churches and its cognate body, the World Council of Churches, were many times more adamant and persistent in condemning anti-communism than in criticizing communism.
He could so easily and honourably have excused himself from active service but was adamant.
The UN secretary-general would also be involved in such a transfer. But in Tripoli at the weekend, Col Gadaffi was adamant that unless the men voluntarily gave themselves up, he would not hand them over.
Mr Oreja is understood to be adamant that France cannot delay opening up landing rights until January.
American Airlines insists Sabre does not promote its own tickets. Other CRS owners are equally adamant their technology has no favourites.
He said Congress should pass the Bush-backed amendment if it "is serious about protecting the flag." "The President is adamant in his support of the public demand to protect the flag.
Contract catering in particular is seen as a recession-resistant industry. Mr Forte is adamant that his group was right to concentrate on its hotel and restaurant business.
Any changes in quotas in favor of one group have to be at the expense of another, and Brazil, which is always a huge target for such a move, is adamant in not giving up any of its 30% market share.
Assad has remained adamant that neither he nor other Syrian officials will attend.
Robin Berrill, of Henderson Unit Trusts, is adamant that it will not.
Benedict Ferro, district director of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, was adamant about not letting the family return, saying to do so would be an affront to millions of people waiting to enter lawfully.
The food industry has been adamant on the need for regulatory uniformity.
But he is equally adamant that change does not mean abandonment of past principles.
Some critics have wondered whether bank dealers would use EBS were it not for the fact that they have a stake in the system. Users, however, are adamant this is not the case.
In both cases, the downfall followed some weeks during which the prime minister was supposed to be adamant that his ministers would be defended, although he was less adamant about Mr Mates than about Mr Mellor.
In both cases, the downfall followed some weeks during which the prime minister was supposed to be adamant that his ministers would be defended, although he was less adamant about Mr Mates than about Mr Mellor.
A few weeks after a man opened fire with an AK-47 in a schoolyard in Stockton, Calif., George Bush, who had come to office just as adamant as Reagan on gun control, switched signals.
Mr. Martyanov, the Aramil factory director, is adamant: "In 1979, we never sold mixed feed to private individuals," he says.
While Washington would prefer a diplomatic to a military solution in Cambodia, it is adamant about refusing to permit the Chinese-backed Khmer Rouge to dominate any future government.

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