Far from being bereft of all feeling, he is animated by a passion that is deep because it is stubborn, a passion for the absolute and for truth.

他远远没有失去所有的感情，并被一种内心深处的激情所鼓舞；这种激情之所以深藏在内心，是因为它坚定不移，是一种对于绝对、对于真理的激情。

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A colt untamed turns out stubborn; a son left to himself grows up unruly.

不驯服的马，是难以驾驭的；任性的儿子，必然鲁莽执拗。

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You were a stubborn child, weren't you?

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I'd rather go and if you're going to be stubborn i'd rather go see Bourne Ultimatum with you than not go on a date at all.

如果你固执己见毫不动摇的话,那我就陪你去看《谍影重重》吧,这总比约会失败要好吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Stubborn is not a good first date word, but okay.

第一次约会用固执这个词似乎不太好吧

耶鲁公开课 - 博弈论课程节选

Despite being dismissed by many as a leftover from predecessor Suharto's discredited New Order regime, Habibie endured opposition - even from within his own party - and put up a stubborn fight to remain a key political contender.

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"He's a young man with a tremendous amount of hope, and he's stubborn - stubborn in a good way, " said Dr Jaimie Shores, the hospital's clinical director of hand transplantation.

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Indeed, the bishop comes across as a stubborn, prickly individual and a man whom it is easier to admire at a distance.

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