英['ædəmənt]美['ædəmənt]
记忆方法
词源词根法
【结构分析】adamant=a(不)+daman(征服)+t→不可征服的→坚硬无比的=【词源解释】daman←希腊语daman(征服、驯服)=【背景知识】古希腊人最早接触钻石时,发现钻石特别坚硬,因此将其命名为adamas(钻石),该词后来辗转演变为英语单词adamant(坚硬无比的)和diamond(钻石)。
谐音记忆法
可用谐音法,谐音:爱得猛。因为爱得猛烈所以不会轻易改变,这样的人对于爱就是—-固执的,强硬的。
adjective(形容词)
双解例句
adjective(形容词)
小知识
If you stubbornly refuse to change your mind about something, you are adamant about it.
This word's story begins in ancient Greece, where philosophers spoke about a legendary unbreakable stone or metal they called adamas (literally, “invincible”). In English, people began to use the word to refer to something that cannot be altered, and then in the twentieth century — after adamant had been in English for about a thousand years — it came to be used as an adjective to mean “unyielding as stone.” If you're adamant about something, no amount of persuasion is going to convince you otherwise.
实用短语
单词用法
词根词缀
词根 dama= to conquer 征服 adamant adj. 坚硬的;坚定不移的 a 不 + dama 征服 +〔a〕nt → 不可征服的 → 坚定不移的 damage n./v. 毁坏 dama 征服 +〔= a〕ge 行为的结果 → 征服就意味着对另一方的毁坏 → 毁坏 damageable adj. 易损害的 damage 毁坏 + able 可…的,能…的;具有…性质的 → 易损害的
同义词
adj.坚固的;坚定的
firm / obstinate / unyielding