| 词汇 | adamant |
| 词源 | adamant. Stubbornly unyielding, inflexible, impervious to reason. The word comes ultimately from the Greek a, not, plus damao, to tame, and originally meant something very hard, such as a diamond or steel. Poet John Milton writes in Paradise Lost (1667) of Lucifer dwelling in hell in “adamantine chains and penal fire . . .” |
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