发音：[təˈneɪʃəs]
例句：
- The adjective word tenacious can be used to describe something physical that is not easily pulled apart, such as metals.
- More importantly, tenacious is adopted to express the meaning that someone is persistent in, or maintaining, something valued or desired, or the idea that a person is not easily giving up something.
- A tenacious trainer, she adheres to her grueling swimming schedule no matter what.
- Wall Street women — though often tough, tenacious and outspoken — are not a crowd accustomed to street protest.
- Senn was remembered as a tenacious consumer advocate who stood up for individuals against insurance companies.
- To generations of Times colleagues, Mr. Clines was an almost ideal reporter: a keen observer, a tenacious fact-finder and a paragon of integrity and fairness who could write gracefully against a deadline.
解释：
- Tenacious为形容词，其可以表示“things are not easily pulled apart”这一含义，即物理状态上“具有粘性的/不容易分离的”，与cohesive/adhesive等单词构成近义词。使用场景如下：Metal is a kind of tenacious material, which is not easily pulled apart. （金属是一种不容易分离的材料，其很难被拉开。）
- 实际使用中，tenacious多表示“someone is persistent in, or maintaining, something valued or desired, or a person is not easily giving up something.”这一含义，表达抽象意义上“具有粘性的”这一含义，即“坚持的/顽强的/不易屈服的”，与persistent/stubborn/unyielding这些单词构成近义词。
- 具体使用场景如下：
- This professor is a tenacious advocate of civil rights.（这位教授是一位顽强的民权倡导者。）
—Culture - The company has a tenacious hold on the market.（该公司在市场上拥有牢牢的控制力。）
—Business - People always say that Aung San Suu Kyi is a tenacious woman.（人们经常说说昂山素季是一个坚毅的女人。）
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