- がんきょう
- [頑強] ◇→頑強な◇→頑強に頑強
dogged
tenacious
stubborn* * *がんきょう【頑強】◇ → 頑強な◇ → 頑強に* * *Iがんきょう【眼鏡】(a pair of) glasses [《英》 spectacles]. [=めがね 1]眼鏡処方 a prescription for glasses; a glasses prescription.IIがんきょう【頑強】~な stubborn; obstinate; dogged; stiff; persistent; unbending; unyielding; 〔身体などが〕 tough; sturdy.●頑強な体躯 a tough [sturdy] body
・頑強な態度を取る be (completely) uncooperative [stubborn] (in one's attitude 《toward…》); have an uncooperative [stubborn] attitude; be dogged [unyielding] 《in one's opposition (to…)》
・警官隊は地域住民の頑強な抵抗にあった. The police met unyielding opposition from the locals. | The local residents opposed the police forces stubbornly [doggedly].
頑強さ stubbornness; doggedness; obstinacy; persistence.頑強に stubbornly; doggedly; obstinately; unbendingly.●頑強に抵抗する resist (sth) stubbornly [doggedly, stoutly]; oppose sth stubbornly; put up [offer] (a) stubborn resistance
・頑強に公権力と戦う contest public authority stubbornly; put up a stubborn fight against the public authorities
・頑強に主張を曲げない refuse stubbornly [doggedly] to change one's original point of view [《口》 tune]; stick stubbornly to [continue stubbornly to maintain] what one first said
・わが部隊は敵の猛攻にも屈せず頑強に踏みとどまった. Our troops resisted the enemy attack stubbornly without giving way. | We stuck our heels in and doggedly resisted the enemy onslaught.
Japanese-English dictionary. 2013.