Tenacity

(n.) The quality or state of being tenacious; as, tenacity, or retentiveness, of memory; tenacity, or persistency, of purpose.

(n.) That quality of bodies which keeps them from parting without considerable force; cohesiveness; the effect of attraction; -- as distinguished from brittleness, fragility, mobility, etc.

(n.) That quality of bodies which makes them adhere to other bodies; adhesiveness; viscosity.

(n.) The greatest longitudinal stress a substance can bear without tearing asunder, -- usually expressed with reference to a unit area of the cross section of the substance, as the number of pounds per square inch, or kilograms per square centimeter, necessary to produce rupture.

伯纳德录入

• Another episode of this period is curious in its revelation of the tenacity with which Edison has always held to some of his oldest possessions with a sense of personal attachment. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The ridges upon which Vicksburg is built, and those back to the Big Black, are composed of a deep yellow clay of great tenacity. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
• Yet, even he returned to the public-house on each occasion with the tenacity of a confirmed drunkard. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• So he locked up the Bower and they set forth: Mr Venus taking his arm, and keeping it with remarkable tenacity. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• For writing or drawing upon paper, to be transferred to the stone, more wax is added to the ink, to give it greater tenacity. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
• She felt his invisible tenacity. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• Think of her appearance, Watson--her manner, her suppressed excitement, her restlessness, her tenacity in asking questions. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• I cannot conceive why nature did not give you a bulldog's head, for you have all a bulldog's tenacity, said Shirley. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That she should be obliged to do what she intensely disliked, was an idea which turned her quiet tenacity into active invention. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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