intransigent: [19] In the 18th century there was an extreme leftist political party in Spain which, because of its unwillingness ever to compromise, was known as los intransigentes. The name was formed with the negative prefix in- from transigentes, the present participle of Spanish transigir ‘compromise’. This was a descendant of Latin transigere, literally ‘drive through’, hence ‘come to an understanding, accomplish’ (source of English transact), a compound verb formed from trans- ‘through’ and agere ‘drive’ (from which English gets action, agent, etc.) French took the Spanish word over as a general adjective meaning ‘uncompromising’, and English acquired it in the early 1880s. => act, action, agent, transact
intransigent (adj.)
1881, from French intransigeant, from Spanish los intransigentes, literally "those not coming to agreement," name for extreme republican party in the Spanish Cortes 1873-4, from in- "not" (see in- (1)) + transigente "compromising," from Latin transigentem (nominative transigens), present participle of transigere "come to an agreement, accomplish, to carry through" (see transaction). Acquired its generalized sense in French.
中文解释
1. transact => intransigent.2. literally 'drive through', hence 'come to an understanding, accomplish' (source of English transact).3. 不让其通过、不与其达成交易。
实用例句
1. They put pressure on the Government to change its intransigent stance.
他们向政府施压以迫使其改变不妥协的立场。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He can be intransigent and pig - headed at times.
他有时候会很固执,寸步不让.
来自《简明英汉词典》
3. The worry is that the radicals will grow more intransigent.
现在人们担忧激进分子会变得更加不妥协。
来自辞典例句
4. He can be intransigent and pigheaded at times.
他有时候会很固执，寸步不让。
来自辞典例句
5. As fin intransigent non - objective painter, he is antipathetic to figuration, especially Expressionist and decorative.