in·sist·ence
noun/ɪnˈsɪstəns/
/ɪnˈsɪstəns/
[uncountable]- an act of demanding or saying something clearly and refusing to accept any opposition or excuses
坚决要求；坚持；固执 - at somebody's insistence At her insistence, the matter was dropped.
在她的坚持下，这件事被搁置了。 - insistence on/upon (doing) something their insistence on strict standards of behaviour
他们对严格行为规范的坚决主张 - insistence that… No one was convinced by his insistence that he was not to blame.
没有人相信他坚持认为自己不应该受到责备。
Extra Examples- The union has dropped its earlier insistence that workers should receive bonus payments.
工会先前坚持工人应得到奖金，但现在已不再坚持了。 - an insistence upon the highest standards of grammatical correctness
对语法准确性最高标准的坚持 - insistence by the government that 25 per cent of all household waste be recycled
政府坚持要求 25% 的家庭垃圾得到回收 - their repeated insistence that the trial be held in a US court
他们再三坚持要由一家美国法院来审理
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dogged
- dogmatic
- stubborn
- …
- abandon
- drop
- at somebody’s insistence
- on somebody’s insistence
- insistence by
- …
- at somebody's insistence At her insistence, the matter was dropped.