| 词组 | insist |
| 释义 | insist When insist is used with a preposition, it is used with on or (less often) upon: • ... he liked to insist more strongly than ever on the altruistic, the self-sacrificingly patriotic character of his whole career —Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree, 1937 • ... he certainly insists on the superiority of man to nonhuman nature —Eric Bentley, in Forms of Modern Fiction, ed. William Van O'Connor, 1948 • ... she insisted on reading them pleasant stories about nice boys and girls —Louis Auchincloss, A Law for the Lion, 1953 • ... but he himself, though capable of firm opinions, never insisted upon them —Robert Penn Warren, Commonweal, 15 Aug. 1947 • ... she has added ... the sense of raw pity which is all the more remarkable because she never insists upon it —Robert Payne, N. Y. Times Book Rev., 9 May 1954 In its transitive use, insist is used with a clause as object: • ... if a powerful writer insists for long enough that you are half-dead, why, then, you begin to ... believe it —C. Day Lewis, A Hope for Poetry, 3d ed., 1936 • ... in some suburban schools where parents insist their children take certain academic subjects — James B. Conant, Slums and Suburbs, 1961 |
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