词为我用 - dogged

词汇释义

dogged  TEM8  TEM4  GRE

UK  /ˈdɒɡ.ɪd/ US  /ˈdɑː.ɡɪd/

adj, If you describe someone's actions as dogged, you mean that they are determined to continue with something even if it becomes difficult or dangerous.顽强的，坚持不懈的

外刊例句

1. And unless Labour is able to embrace a politics of aspiration and inclusion, a politics that defies some of the traditional labels that have dogged politics for so long, then it's not going to win".(The Guardian)

2. To my horror, I realised that I was inadvertently hearing the truth about a vast conspiracy that had dogged me throughout my childhood.(The Guardian - Opinion)

3. The Ebola response in Sierra Leone has been dogged by strikes by healthcare staff over pay and working conditions.(The Guardian)

4. Actually governing Malawi in her own right has been much harder, made much more so by the infamous Cashgate scandal which has dogged her administration since it broke in October last year.(The Guardian)

5. The dark side of that gets all the attention, somehow, as though it was his career and not his life that was dogged by addiction.(The Guardian - Sport)

6. Laborious and complex, the talks have been dogged by finger-pointing between rich and poor countries over sharing the burden for curbing carbon emissions.(The Guardian)

7. The US company has also been dogged by controversy surrounding its aggressive approach to local governments and traditional taxi services.(The Guardian)

8. Never mind the allegations of corruption that have dogged Fifa over the years; that sort of thing goes with the territory.(The Guardian - Sport)

9. But surveys put him behind Miliband, not ahead of him, on whether he understands ordinary people, an issue that has dogged the Cameron Tory party to this day.(The Guardian - Opinion)

10. It brought home the diversity of rural towns and the relentless search for their own secret ingredient that will bring people to visit or live and turn around the (commonly felt) economic malaise that has dogged them.(The Guardian)

11. He will also have to prove he can usher in a new type of politics, free of the corruption and mismanagement that dogged the Yanukovych regime.(The Guardian)

12. Along with Tony Jones, Smith won a Walkley in 2013 for a Lateline investigation "The tipping point" and has been dogged in her pursuit of child abuse in the Catholic church.(The Guardian)

13. Nigeria's military has been dogged by low pay, low morale and lack of equipment.(The Guardian)

词汇搭配

dogged action, determination, insistence, perseverance, persistence, pursuit

词汇来源

"having the qualities of a dog" (mostly in a negative sense, "mean, surly, contemptible"), c. 1300, from dog (n.). Meaning "persistent, silently obstinate" is from 1779. Hence doggedly (late 14c.), "cruelly, maliciously;" later "with a dog's persistence" (1773). Related: Doggedness.

近义词

insistent, patient, persevering, persistent, pertinacious, tenacious

反义词

surrendering, yielding, hesitant,  irresolute, fickle, inconstant

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