Stubbornness is also determination. It's simply a matter of shifting from 'won't power' to 'will power.'
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n. 决心;决定,确定;[物]测定,计算;
💡 de使成...+termin界限 +ation表名词 →决定
"Contemporary accounts attest to his courage and determination."
当时的报道证实了他的勇气和决心。
近义:resolution, resolve, disposition, insistence, persistence, tenacity
反义:hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, irresolution, mutability, unsteadiness
adv. 简单地,朴素地;(引出概括或解释)不过,仅仅;简直;<非正>实在;
💡 sim一次 + ply 折叠 →折一次 → ad.简单地;朴素地
"The clock is simply for ornament; it doesn't work any more."
这架时钟纯属摆设,它再也不走了。
近义:just, merely, only, purely, solely, but
反义:elaborately, painfully, wearisomely, challengingly, hardly
stubbornness
['stʌbənnis]
n. 倔强,顽强;牛性;牛脾气;犟劲;
"He has a touch of stubbornness in his composition."
他脾气有点倔.
近义:inflexibility, intractability, intransigence, mulishness, obduracy, obstinacy
反义:acceptance, sufferance, tolerance, toleration, admittance
n. 事件;(讨论、考虑等的)问题;重要性;物质;
vi. 要紧,重要;化脓;有重大影响;有重要性;
"Now we come to the crux of the matter ."
现在我们来谈问题的症结。
近义:import, signify, weigh, count, amount, issue
n. [机]动力,功率;力量;政权,权力;强国,大国;
vt. 运转;用发动机发动;使…有力量;
vi. 靠动力行进;快速行进;
adj. 权力的;机械能的,电动的;用电力(或动力)发动的;
"The engine is being specially adapted to increase its power."
正在对这台引擎进行改装以增加它的功率.
近义:move, operate, activate, actuate, energise, energize
反义:incapacity, powerlessness, weariness, impotency, impotentness, impossibility
shifting
['ʃiftiŋ]
n. 移位;转移,偏移;狡猾;
v. 改变(shift的现在分词);
adj. 移动的;多变的;狡诈的;
"It's impossible to prove him wrong because he keeps shifting his ground."
要证明他错是不可能的,因为他不断地改变立场.
近义:reciprocation, rotation, switching, alternation, mobile, movable
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"Acceptance is such an important commodity, some have called it 'the first law of personal growth.'"