英文字典中文字典


英文字典中文字典51ZiDian.com



中文字典辞典   英文字典 a   b   c   d   e   f   g   h   i   j   k   l   m   n   o   p   q   r   s   t   u   v   w   x   y   z       







请输入英文单字，中文词皆可：

obdurate    
a. 顽固的,执拗的,冷酷的

顽固的,执拗的,冷酷的

obdurate
adj 1: stubbornly persistent in wrongdoing [synonym: {cussed},
{obdurate}, {obstinate}, {unrepentant}]
2: showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings; "his flinty
gaze"; "the child's misery would move even the most obdurate
heart" [synonym: {flinty}, {flint}, {granitic}, {obdurate},
{stony}]

Obdurate \Ob"du*rate\, v. t.
To harden. [Obs.]
[1913 Webster]


Obdurate \Ob"du*rate\, a. [L. obduratus, p. p. of obdurare to
harden; ob (see Ob-) durare to harden, durus hard. See
{Dure}.]
1. Hardened in feelings, esp. against moral or mollifying
influences; unyielding; hard-hearted; stubbornly wicked.
[1913 Webster]

The very custom of evil makes the heart obdurate
against whatsoever instructions to the contrary.
--Hooker.
[1913 Webster]

Art thou obdurate, flinty, hard as steel,
Nay, more than flint, for stone at rain relenteth?
--Shak.
[1913 Webster]

2. Hard; harsh; rugged; rough; intractable. "Obdurate
consonants." --Swift.
[1913 Webster]

Note: Sometimes accented on the second syllable, especially
by the older poets.
[1913 Webster]

There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart.
--Cowper.
[1913 Webster]

Syn: Hard; firm; unbending; inflexible; unyielding; stubborn;
obstinate; impenitent; callous; unfeeling; insensible;
unsusceptible.

Usage: {Obdurate}, {Callous}, {Hardened}. Callous denotes a
deadening of the sensibilities; as, a callous
conscience. Hardened implies a general and settled
disregard for the claims of interest, duty, and
sympathy; as, hardened in vice. Obdurate implies an
active resistance of the heart and will aganst the
pleadings of compassion and humanity.
[1913 Webster] -- {Ob"du*rate*ly}, adv. --
{Ob"du*rate*ness}, n.
[1913 Webster]

131 Moby Thesaurus words for "obdurate":
adamant, asleep, benumbed, bony, brazen, callous, calloused,
case-hardened, cement, cemental, cold, cold of heart, coldblooded,
coldhearted, concrete, conscienceless, corneous, dead, deadened,
dense, diamondlike, dogged, dour, dull, dure, firm, flinthearted,
flintlike, flinty, fundamentalist, granitelike, granitic, hard,
hard as nails, hard of heart, hard-bitten, hard-boiled, hard-nosed,
hard-set, hardened, hardhearted, heartless, hidebound, horny,
immovable, impassible, impenitent, imperceptive, impercipient,
impliable, indurated, inexorable, inflexible, insensate,
insensible, insensitive, insentient, insolent, inured, iron,
iron-hard, ironbound, ironclad, ironhanded, ironlike, lapideous,
lithoid, lithoidal, lost to shame, marble, marblelike, mulish,
muscle-bound, numb, numbed, obstinate, obtuse, orthodox, osseous,
procrustean, purist, puristic, puritan, puritanic, relentless,
resistant, resistive, rigid, rigorist, rigoristic, rigorous,
rockbound, rocklike, rocky, seared, shameless, solid, steellike,
steely, stiff, stiff-necked, stonelike, stony, stonyhearted,
straightlaced, straitlaced, stubborn, thick-skinned, thick-witted,
tough, unabject, unbending, unblushing, uncompassionate,
uncompromising, uncontrite, unemotional, unfeeling, unfelt,
unmelted, unmerciful, unnatural, unperceptive, unrelenting,
unrepentant, unrepenting, unresponsive, unsoftened, unsympathetic,
untouched, unyielding

安装中文字典英文字典查询工具!


中文字典英文字典工具:
选择颜色:
输入中英文单字

































































英文字典中文字典相关资料:


  • Iranian anti-access and area denial strategy in the Strait of Hormuz . . .
    Iran's anti-access area denial (A2 AD) strategy in the Strait of Hormuz mixes advanced technology with guerilla tactics to deny, deter or delay foreign forces access and maritime freedom of maneuver The regular attempt by adversaries to deny one another freedom of movement on the battlefield can be observed throughout history
  • Iran Develops Air Defense Capability for Possible Regional Role
    Armed with a larger number of new missile batteries that are more mobile and concealable than the S-300, Iran could potentially place an antiaccess area-denial (A2AD) umbrella over all of the shipping lanes from the Persian Gulf down to the Gulf of Oman
  • Iran May Have the S-400 in All But Name; What Russia Really Delivered . . .
    Understanding the importance of air superiority to Western military doctrine, as demonstrated in numerous conflicts from the Korean War to the Gulf War, Iran’s military leadership realised the importance in investing in anti access area denial (A2AD) systems capable of protecting the country’s airspace from Western fighters and bombers
  • Non-State Actors and Anti-Access Capabilities: An Emerging Challenge?
    Iran’s Revolutionary Guards may be tempted to transfer to their regional proxies not only military technologies, but – maybe more importantly – their ideas and experiences in order to disseminate A2AD bubbles through the Middle East
  • Outside-In: Operating from Range to Defeat Iran’s Anti-Access . . . - CSBA
    Iran has had ample opportunity over the last twenty years to examine the “American way of war” and to deduce that allowing the United States and its allies to mass overwhelming combat power on its borders is a prescription for defeat
  • The Emerging Anti-Access Area-Denial Challenge - CSIS
    Its combination of ballistic and cruise missiles, unconventional naval forces, and hybrid ground defenses—matched with tight Persian Gulf geography, Iran’s physical depth, and its deep ties to regional proxies—offer a complex structured AD challenge that strategic and operational planners would have to account for in the event of hostilities
  • Iran Potentially Expanding Its Air Defense Axis in Lebanon and Syria
    Tehran is seemingly redoubling its efforts to equip Hezbollah and other regional allies with advanced air defense systems, which could affect Israeli and U S calculations in the Gaza war and beyond
  • OUTSIDE-IN: DEFEATING IRAN’S ANTI-ACCESS AND AREA-DENIAL THREAT
    Specifically, Outside-‐In addresses an emerging Iranian A2 AD strategy that is designed to control the Strait of Hormuz and prevent the U S military from conducting timely power-‐projection operations in the Persian Gulf
  • Iran Boosts Its A2 AD Capabilities – The Diplomat
    Iran is developing new missile technologies to improve its ability to wage asymmetrical warfare Saudi Arabia’s April 29 parading of its Chinese-made DF-3 medium-range ballistic missiles (MRBMs)
  • Meeting the Anti-Access and Area-Denial Challenge - CSBA
    Iran, with military-technical support from China, North Korea, and Russia, seems intent on developing and fielding a range of A2 AD capabilities, to include ballistic and cruise missiles (possibly equipped with WMD warheads), mobile ASCMs (both shore based and sea based), submarines, small high-speed coastal combatants, and advanced anti-ship





中文字典-英文字典  2005-2009