They were insistent on having a contract for the work.
他们坚持要就这项工作立一份合同。
Why are you so insistent that we leave tonight?
你为什么一定要我们今晚离开？
She didn't want to go but her brother was insistent.
她不想去，但她哥哥非得要她去。
insistent demands
再三的要求
the insistent ringing of the telephone
没完没了的电话铃声
1.坚持的,逼人注意的;显眼的,显著的
1.saying very firmly that something must happen or that something is true
2.continuous, and loud or strong
1.They were guests of the BioCruiser, and he never liked to start out a mission by being insistent.
他们是生态游艇的客人，他也不想在执行任务时显得过于急躁。
2.It was an extraordinary confrontation between the country's most dominant figure and a powerless but insistent adversary.
这真是一场非同寻常的对决，在权倾一国的大人物与无权无势但不屈不挠的异见人士之间展开。
3.He was very insistent that I should spend the entire evening with him so that I would not have to set off again until the following day.
他一直坚持要我跟他一起度过那个夜晚，让我第二天再走。
4.It sings its sweetest, most insistent song, like the Sirens trying to draw Odysseus and his crew onto the rocks.
她唱着最甜蜜最坚持不懈的歌曲，正如塞壬试图令奥德修斯和他的手下迷惑，让航船触礁沉没。
5.moreover, so insistent was the spur within me that to stop my poetic adventure was a matter of sheer impossibility.
而且，我内心抒发情感的激情如此迫切，若要阻止我写作诗歌的冒险的历程简直是不可能的事情。
6.When one acquaintance became too insistent on trying to send a gift to thank Mr. Jobs for his friendship, he was asked to stop calling.
当一个熟人变得很急切地试图给乔布斯先生礼物来感谢他的友情，他因此被拒绝拜访。
7.So insistent was he in his respect for ownership that he took care not to disturb or displace anything belonging to someone else.
因为没有一刻不尊重旁人的主权，他绝对不动别人的东西。
8.The caller had been particularly insistent on meeting with her father immediately, and he had taken an afternoon flight out of Moscow.
打电话的人坚持要马上见到她父亲，而他已经在莫斯科之外的地方乘了一下午的飞机。
9.The changing era requires the United States to be more insistent upon the need for free trade and an end to protectionism, he said.
他说，这个不断变化的时代要求美国更加坚持自由贸易的必要性，同时制止贸易保护主义。
10.His father was an ex-marine who drank too much and insistent that he should join the Marines right out of high school.
他的爸爸是一个经常酗酒的海军退役士兵，并坚持让他高中一毕业就参加海军。